Paradise of Cities: Venice In the 19th Century - Hardcover

Praise for A History of Venice

“The standard Venetian history in English, indispensable.”
—Jan Morris The Times (London)

“As a historian Lord Norwich knows what matters. As a writer he has a taste for beauty, a love of language and an enlivening wit . . . He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history.”
—Hugh Trevor-Roper

“Will become the standard English work of Venetian history.”
—C.P. Snow Financial Times

“Lord Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done. He has put readers of this generation more in his debt than any other English writer.”
—Peter Levi, Sunday Times (London)

Praise for A Short History of Byzantium:

“A grand and exciting story.”
—Wall Street Journal

“Vivid and entertaining. . . This. . . is history expounded like the first-class conversation of a sprightly raconteur who responds to his enthusiasms as they seize him with each fresh turn of the story.”
—Sunday Times (London)

“The best narrative history available today of an empire as fascinating as it was important.”
—The Spectator

Praise for Shakespeare’s Kings
“Lord Norwich takes to his task with characteristic panache.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Th[is] book is one that should be read in its entirety and then placed on the bookshelf for future readings.”
—Tampa Tribune-Times

JOHN JULIUS NORWICH is the author of the two-volume A History of Venice as well as The Normans of Sicily, A History of Byzantium, Shakespeare’s Kings, and numerous other publications. He has written and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television and is a regular lecturer on Venice and other travel and historical topics. He is the chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund, a former member of the executive committee of the National Trust, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographical Society. The Italian government has also honored him as a Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito. He lives in London.