Venice a traveller's reader Marco Polo andarono a rifarsi una vita

andarono a rifarsi una vita sugli inospitali isolotti della laguna

Significa facilitare la vita a bordo

All’inizio siamo infatti nel braccio degli assassini di San Quentin

La navigazione fino all’isola si svolge infatti senza intoppi

not forgetting practical advice born from his remarkable experience

Venice a traveller's reader Marco Polo andarono a rifarsi una vitaHenry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it ' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly propped on its long row of thick legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner,