The complete online text of Venetian Life by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

With the annexation of Brescia in 1426 and Bergamo in 1428, Venetian dominion over the terraferma stretched from the Friuli well into the heart of Lombardy. Venice's subjugation of the city of Brescia and the surrounding countryside (Bresciano) provided access to a rich...

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