I'm looking for books about Venetia. It can be 7th century,

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (it sucks, but atleast it's really short)

>>8296446
Anything by Donna Leon

Shakespeare
Marlowe
Schiller

Venice was the center of world oligarchical power from the sack of Constantinople to 1797, so it is the setting for many early modern historical plays.

>>8296446
Journey by Moonlight (partially in Venice)

>>8296545
>it sucks
It's a rather academic work, but once you really see through it it is very much enjoyable.

>>8296446
>>8296701
Jonson and Shakespeare used Venice as a mask for contemporary London

Invisible Cities

>>8296545
You never read/studied it, obviously.

>>8296704
>Journey by Moonlight (partially in Venice)
Barely. It's more about Rome (Especially Monte Testaccio, which I'd never heard of)

>>8297510
Read it in translation, might've been a bad one. What's so good about it? The ego-tripping in the start of it or the boypussy lusting? Or something else?

Michelle Lovric writes historical fiction, quite decent and evocative, several set at least partly in Venice: Carnevale (set 1807), The Floating Book (set 1668), The Remedy (set 1785), The Book of Human Skin (set 1796), and a few kids' books.

If I remember correctly Q by Luther Blisseth has a pretty large part set in Venice. Nice read, too