Morris: Venice (Unabridged)

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1. Introduction by Jan Morris - 00:08:20
2. Venice by Jan Morris read by Sebastian Comberti - 00:05:08
3. The estuaries of three virile rivers first formed… - 00:05:17
4. The People – Chapter 1: Islanders - 00:07:49
5. She was never loved. - 00:06:14
6. Chapter 2: The Venetian Way - 00:06:23
7. The Venetian custom is the criterion of good sense… - 00:06:39
8. This self esteem makes for narrow horizons and short focuses. - 00:06:55
9. Chapter 3: Strong Men - 00:06:11
10. They are sharp businessmen still. - 00:05:39
11. The Republic was sustained, too… - 00:08:44
12. Under the Republic none of these working men had any share… - 00:05:37

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1. At the other end of the scale there remain the aristocrats… - 00:07:25
2. The patrician was not allowed to refuse an appointment… - 00:08:22
3. Chapter 4: The Truth Not to Everyone - 00:06:37
4. More casual pilferers haunt the water-buses… - 00:07:23
5. He might also represent the Venetian Nosey Parker… - 00:04:06
6. Chapter 5: On Women - 00:06:08
7. Other classes of Venetian women were not so sheltered… - 00:07:12
8. Chapter 6: Minor Venetians - 00:05:11
9. Even more, I sometimes think, do the Venetians love… - 00:04:49
10. One Venetian cat became an international celebrity. - 00:04:21
11. There used to be many horses and mules in Venice… - 00:06:52
12. There are many dogs in Venice. - 00:06:56
13. Chapter 7: Pageantries and Panaceas - 00:02:26

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1. The most memorable of all such galas was arranged… - 00:04:10
2. Venice is not quite so sumptuous nowadays… - 00:07:29
3. Half a century later another Patriarch of Venice became Pope… - 00:07:29
4. Venice used to be a great place for love potions… - 00:06:36
5. Chapter 8: Poi Christiani - 00:05:47
6. 'Are you a Venetian?' I once asked a saintly Dominican… - 00:07:41
7. Today the worst is probably over. - 00:06:34
8. If the Venetians are not always devout, they are usually kind. - 00:05:56
9. There is a trace of the morbid to this soft-heartedness. - 00:06:10
10. Chapter 9: Minorities - 00:08:53
11. At the other end of the city… - 00:07:17
12. For a taste of Venetian Englishry… - 00:05:04

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1. Chapter 10: Melancholia - 00:07:01
2. No wonder Napoleon swept her aside. - 00:06:08
3. Since then she has been a port, an art centre… - 00:07:33
4. The City – Chapter 11: Ex Island - 00:06:45
5. Away to the west, beyond the railway station… - 00:07:13
6. Chapter 12: Streets Full of Water - 00:06:31
7. The canals, some of which have ninth-century origins… - 00:05:03
8. A wonderful variety of boats has been developed… - 00:05:45
9. The water transport of Venice is easy-going… - 00:06:09
10. Different indeed is the character of the gondola… - 00:06:56
11. A gondola is very expensive to build… - 00:07:33
12. Chapter 13: Stones of Venice - 00:06:33

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1. The lanes are often beguilingly unpredictable… - 00:02:41
2. Long centuries ago the Venetians, looking around them… - 00:07:27
3. Many stories testify to the pride… - 00:06:10
4. Do not think, either, that Venice has no gardens. - 00:05:31
5. The early Venetian bridges were used by horses and mules… - 00:07:09
6. Chapter 14: City Services - 00:05:51
7. There are a few traffic notices in Venice… - 00:08:43
8. Everybody dies in Venice. - 00:06:45
9. Marvellously evocative is a winter funeral in Venice. - 00:06:16
10. The marble-workers who erect the fancy mausoleums… - 00:05:48
11. Chapter 15: Age - 00:06:20
12. When the most famous of them all fell down… - 00:05:22
13. In a matter of moments it was all over… - 00:04:56

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1. Today many a campanile is supported… - 00:07:48
2. Chapter 16: The Bestiary - 00:04:22
3. An altogether different, gentler kind of derangement… - 00:08:57
4. Bestial, too, were the men of Venice… - 00:07:56
5. Venice scarcely needs fables to strengthen her strain… - 00:04:47
6. On San Michele is buried the French painter Leopold Robert… - 00:05:36
7. Chapter 17: Arabesques - 00:06:42
8. More often, though, the allusions of Venice are arabesque… - 00:07:38
9. In Venice you can enjoy the pleasures of the Orient… - 00:07:11
10. Venice is no longer the supreme city of music… - 00:05:16
11. There is no drink that feels organic to Venice… - 00:06:41
12. Chapter 18: The Seasons - 00:05:58

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1. All is dank, swirling, desolate. - 00:04:23
2. And then one morning the spring arrives. - 00:06:41
3. With a thud, a babble of voices and a crinkle… - 00:06:42
4. Confronted by these multitudes… - 00:05:35
5. But though crowds do not suit some parts of the city… - 00:05:54
6. Chapter 19: New on the Rialto - 00:05:42
7. In its great centuries Venice was more than a mere spectacle… - 00:05:06
8. Above the stalls of San Giacomo… - 00:04:52
9. Chapter 20: Curiosities - 00:06:06
10. Venice is thickly encrusted with the stranger ornaments… - 00:07:02
11. Venetian art, too, is rich in curiosities. - 00:06:36
12. In the adjacent picture, another naval battle… - 00:04:57
13. Then there are the curiosities of politics and diplomacy. - 00:06:55
14. Other nooks of Venetian oddity are almost out of range… - 00:02:58

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1. A pair of baby seagulls, perhaps, lives beneath the poop… - 00:02:34
2. Chapter 21: To the Prodigies - 00:07:10
3. Consider next the southern ward of Dorsoduro… - 00:05:58
4. But when all is said, and nearly all is done… - 00:05:43
5. No two churches are starker, pinker, loftier… - 00:05:44
6. Chapter 22: Purposes - 00:08:55
7. The prime advantages of Venice lie, as both sides agree… - 00:05:54
8. The Lagoon – Chapter 23: Seventh Sea - 00:07:17
9. Thus the lagoon is partly an artificial phenomenon… - 00:05:43
10. Chapter 24: The Office of a Moat - 00:07:53
11. It was eight centuries before the next enemy set foot… - 00:06:49
12. Thus the city has been spared the worst of war… - 00:09:04

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1. Out beside the great sea-gates… - 00:03:11
2. Chapter 25: Navigation - 00:06:01
3. Like the canals of the city, the navigational channels… - 00:05:12
4. Another new canal, to the north of Venice… - 00:03:55
5. Chapter 26: On the Edge - 00:07:30
6. Progress, though, has recently struck Cavallino… - 00:06:56
7. Chapter 27: Island Towns - 00:07:18
8. Certainly it is a building of symbolic significance… - 00:05:51
9. Many other islands of the lagoon have had their eras… - 00:06:23
10. Very different is the spirit of Murano… - 00:05:20
11. All this is a pity… - 00:06:36
12. Chapter 28: Holy Waters - 00:06:01
13. In the museum upstairs there is a fine Egyptian mummy… - 00:06:27

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1. San Lazzaro is always on the move. - 00:05:08
2. Chapter 29: Dead and Alive - 00:06:29
3. Other inshore islands are less haunted… - 00:08:04
4. Mazzorbo is a backwater of quite another kind. - 00:07:12
5. Chapter 30: The Sacred Bulwarks - 00:05:21
6. Beside the porto, and visible far out to sea… - 00:04:24
7. Among these old and mellowed things… - 00:06:10
8. The gusto of the Lido fades as you sail southwards… - 00:05:07
9. Chapter 31: Lost - 00:08:24
10. Embarkation - 00:04:53
11. All this strikes me as odd… - 00:07:21
12. It is partly a matter of texture. - 00:04:31

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