Innovative study re-positioning the Adriatic as a liminal region between different cultures and faiths before the heyday of Venice.

“[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe’s past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece.”—The Wall Street Journal “A lovely, personal journey

The Adriatic is ‘the small Mediterranean’ – a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea wi

The northern Adriatic Sea is transient, most recently flooded between 18,000 to 6,000 years ago following the last glacial maximum, and it will drain again with

The book intends to be a short guide to Venice for lovers of arts, arriving here from distant places and with different cultural backgrounds but all with the sa