Excerpt from The Fascination of the King One thing is certain, to enjoy Venice properly, one must take one's time. The man who imagines that it is possible to come at the heart of the Queen of the Adriatic in a week, would drink Imperial To kay to assuage his thirst. One must take it in sips, for to rush from place to place, as do so many of our countrymen, in an attempt to take in the Academy -the Erari - Giovanni and Paola - Del Santissimo Redentore, and, shall we say, Francesco della Vigna, in a few days, is to have but ...
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Excerpt from The Fascination of the King One thing is certain, to enjoy Venice properly, one must take one's time. The man who imagines that it is possible to come at the heart of the Queen of the Adriatic in a week, would drink Imperial To kay to assuage his thirst. One must take it in sips, for to rush from place to place, as do so many of our countrymen, in an attempt to take in the Academy -the Erari - Giovanni and Paola - Del Santissimo Redentore, and, shall we say, Francesco della Vigna, in a few days, is to have but the poorest remem brance of what one has seen, and to confound Titi an's 'martyrdom of St. Lawrence' with the 'bap tism of Christ' by Cima de Conegliano. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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