1989
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威尼斯是中世纪世界的伟大奇迹之一。通过战争和狡猾的外交，通过繁荣的贸易和极富创造力的造船业，她保持着“亚得里亚海女王”以及最宁静的共和国的称号长达五个世纪之久。在18世纪，这座城市成为欧洲贵族旅行的闪亮秀场(也是“欧洲的风月场”)，直到无力对抗拿破仑的侵略，她先是成为法国的财产，然后又成为奥地利的财产。 然而，她却从来没有失去吸引人的力量，在整个19世纪，拜伦、雪莱、拉斯金、普鲁斯特、乔治·艾略特、享利·詹姆斯和许多一代又一代的外国游客都来到过这座风云变幻的城市。对20世纪威尼斯的描述，以及最近为拯救这座城市免受污染和洪水灾害所作的努力，让这个故事与时俱进。
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Christopher Hibbert
Author · 47 books
Christopher Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS (5 March 1924 - 21 December 2008) was an English writer, historian and biographer. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads. Described by Professor Sir John Plumb as "a writer of the highest ability and in the New Statesman as "a pearl of biographers," he established himself as a leading popular historian/biographer whose works reflected meticulous scholarship.
