Venise

English summary: Venice - where art materialised into a city in the centre of the Lagoon - has faced very serious problems with nature and mankind in the course of its history. This book retraces its history during a period which, strangely enough, has rarely been studied, even though it extends from the end of the 15th century to our own era.This aristocratic city has valiantly resisted and has fostered an unprecedented development of the arts. It has excelled in all fields of knowledge and creativity. After its nobility collapsed at the end of the 18th century, the city passed into foreign hands (Austria and France) before being annexed to the Kingdom of Italy. The history of the 19th and 20th centuries was no less turbulent and Venice has been striving to avert the dangers associated with water and depopulation, while tourism (10 million visitors annually), has proved inadequate to constitute the sole solution to its current problems. French description: Clair, concis, enrichi de nombreuses illustrations et dote d'utiles index, ce guide unique en son genre, ecrit par un admirateur, eminent connaisseur de la Lagune, retrace de la Renaissance a l'oree du XXIe siecle le developpement historique et artistique de Venise, capitale d'un Etat qui fut puissant en Europe. Il donne au lecteur et au voyageur toute l'information utile a la decouverte de la Venise contemporaine, de ses difficultes, de ses habitants.