Alberto Toso Fei

A Guide To Places Of Mystery In Venice

Venetian Legends And Ghost Stories

Shaul Bassi

Shakespeare in Venice. Exploring the City with Shylock and Othello

A Guide to Places of Mystery in Venice

Venetian Legends and Ghost Stories

Curiosità, storie inedite, misteri, aneddoti storici e luoghi sconosciuti della Serenissima Venezia come non l'avete mai vista Su Venezia si ritiene (non a torto) che sia stato già detto e scritto molto. E allora questo libro cerca di raccontare quel che forse, perché meno eclatante, non occupa ancora le pagine dei tanti volumi sulla città: volti inconsueti, nascosti, inediti e curiosi della Laguna. La Venezia che ne emerge è fresca, divertente, insolita, tanto che molti degli aspetti descritti nel volume vi faranno esclamare: ma dài! D’altronde, Venezia sembra essere stata costruita per stupire. Ogni sua pietra nasconde una storia; dietro a ogni angolo si cela una sorpresa che aspetta solo di essere scoperta. Dalle invenzioni legate alla città, a particolari meno noti sulla vita dei dogi, alla venerazione di santi inesistenti: un viaggio per assaporare la città dal fascino ineguagliabile. Forse non tutti sanno che a Venezia... ...il Ghetto Vecchio è più nuovo del Ghetto Nuovo ...fu pubblicato il primo libro tascabile ...ci sono delle chiese dedicate a santi che non esistono ...lo scalmo per il remo si chiama fórcola e può essere utilizzato per ogni tipo di manovra ...fu inventato il copyright ...è nata la parola “ciao” ...fu aperta la prima casa da gioco pubblica al mondo ...ci sono ben quattro campanili pendenti ...il doge non veniva pagato per governare la città ...il diavolo e le streghe escono dalle case forando i muri Alberto Toso Feiscrive libri sulla storia segreta delle città più belle d’Italia, tra curiosità ed enigmi, aneddotica e leggenda, recuperando il patrimonio della tradizione orale: i più recenti sono I segreti del Canal Grande, Misteri di Venezia, Misteri di Roma. È fondatore e direttore artistico del Festival del Mistero, interamente dedicato agli enigmi del passato e ai luoghi leggendari. Per la Newton Compton ha pubblicato I tesori nascosti di Venezia, La Venezia segreta dei dogi e Forse non tutti sanno che a Venezia...

Forse non tutti sanno che a Venezia...

The Ruyi. Venice Act

The Ruyi. Rome. Ediz. Inglese

Roma. The Ruyi

The Ruyi. Roma

Venezia. The Ruyi

The mysteries and legends of the Queen of the Adriatic are unveiled through the interactive pages of the WhaiWhai guidebook: an unconventional guide for tourists and travelers who are looking for an out-of-the-ordinary experience. In the WhaiWhai guidebook series, readers will experience an interactive treasure hunt through six cities, unlocking their mysteries and discovering their most charming corners. To play, all you need is the WhaiWhai guide and a mobile phone. Send a text message to WhaiWhai that includes a special code and immediately receive your first clue. As you travel to each new location throughout the city, a new clue is revealed. Each city has a different treasure, and finding it will be an exciting experience. WhaiWhai combines history and fantasy, allowing readers to step into a story that plays out inside the city, sparking their curiosity and making them the hero of an adventure. In Venice: The Ruyi, the reader discovers the backstreets of this city that was born from the waters. As the thirteenth century drew to a close, Marco Polo returned from China with Emperor Kublai Khan's legendary scepter, the Ruyi. After his death, as several serious revolts broke out throughout the Venetian Republic, the magical sword was hidden in the great traveler's tomb. Both tomb and scepter have since disappeared. Now, an encrypted journal has been found and the Invicibles, a brotherhood that has been after the Ruyi for centuries, have rekindled their interest in hunting it down. So the scepter must be tracked down before it falls into the wrong hands. Professor Carlo Dolfin, who discovered the journal and has become engrossed in the affair, needs help finding the scepter without tipping off the Invincibles, who could prevent him from finding it and even put his life in danger. The Ruyi is an object that can give unfathomable powers to whoever possesses it and bloody battles have been fought over it. The Republic of Venice was the first witness of its arrival in Italy, so the city carries signs of its passage.

The Ruyi

Venice

The mysteries and legends of the Eternal City are unveiled through the interactive pages of the WhaiWhai guidebook: an unconventional guide for tourists and travelers who are looking for an out-of-the-ordinary experience. In the WhaiWhai guidebook series, readers will experience an interactive treasure hunt through six cities, unlocking their mysteries and discovering their most charming corners. To play, all you need is the WhaiWhai guide and a mobile phone. Send a text message to WhaiWhai that includes a special code and immediately receive your first clue. As you travel to each new location throughout the city, a new clue is revealed. Each city has a different treasure, and finding it will be an exciting experience. WhaiWhai combines history and fantasy, allowing readers to step into a story that plays out inside the city, sparking their curiosity and making them the hero of an adventure. In Rome: The Ruyi, discover what’s hiding behind the history of the Eternal City. The story of the magical sword Marco Polo stole from China continues in another city, a city at least as exceptional as Venice. It appears that over the centuries, the Ruyi changed hands many times, from popes to artists, from necromancers to prostitutes, from lords to commoners; each learned the history of this magical object and each hid it in a different place for a different reason. The Ruyi reached Rome centuries ago; the city now bears so many signs of its passage that traditional Roman legends can be read in light of this incredible story. Carlo Dolfin, the old professor who learned of the affair in Venice, believes that the scepter came to Rome, but can no longer be recognized in its original form. That's not all. Some documents he hastily recovered suggest that even the Roman Empire was rooted in the power of a magical object and that the strength of the Caesars declined when they lost track of it. He therefore suspects that the Chinese Ruyi could be a variation of that magical object from ancient Rome.

Rome

Alberto Toso Fei

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