Welcome back, to the most beautiful classroom in the world...

— MORNING THE SECOND —

1. Fides Optima in Deo

2. The Pride of Life.

3. Renaissance Upstarts.

4. Venetians First.

5. Painters, Poets, & Madmen.

6. The King of Money.

7. Il Furioso.

8. The Heart of the State.

9. The Rake Punish'd.

10. Past-Loving Venice.

THEN THERE'S THE BOOK;
of the tour; of ALL the art & ALL the history—
of the windows, the peacocks, the churches, the palaces, the people;
& of the dead bodies under beds & the Ruskins & the cheating in painting contests...

— A SPLENDID HISTORY OF VENICE —

THE ENTIRE TOUR IN PROSE
—plus an additional section on the Renaissance
& Venice's considerable contribution to it—
as well with 40 images, including:

— the bricole foundations of Venice
— more remnants from Constantinople's Church of St. Polyeuktos
— A Ruskin watercolour of the Porta di San Alipio & sketches from his Venetian notebooks
— A full translation of Tommaso Mocenigo's epitaph
— Bellini's Procession in St. Mark's Square
— Side-by-side to-scale comparisons of the instructive tombs of Venice
— a Tintoretto self-portrait and a sketch for his Crucifixion,

PUTS THE STONES OF VENICE TOUR
ONTO YOUR BOOKSHELF & INTO YOUR HANDS

normally

$35

FOR YOU—new student of Venice!—IMAGINED TREASURES IS ONLY
US$29

including shipping to anywhere & everywhere
(but not Genoa or Constantinople)