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The Unfinished Palazzo
Life, Love and Art in Venice
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‘The best gallimaufry of gossip and scandal I have read in years’
Lynn Barber, Sunday Times
'The best gallimaufry of gossip and scandal I have read in years' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times
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Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice's Grand Canal, il palazzo non finito was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century, it played host to three passionate and unconventional women who would take the city by storm.
The staggeringly wealthy Marchesa Luisa Casati made her new home a belle époque aesthete's fantasy and herself a living work of art; notorious British socialite Doris Castlerosse (née Delevingne) welcomed film stars and royalty to glittering parties between the wars; and American heiress Peggy Guggenheim amassed an exquisite collection of modern art, which today draws visitors from around the world.
Each in turn used the Unfinished Palazzo as a stage on which to re-fashion her life, with a dazzling supporting cast ranging from D'Annunzio and Nijinsky, through Noël Coward, Winston Churchill and Cecil Beaton, to Yoko Ono. Individually sensational and collectively remarkable, these stories of modern Venice tell us much about the ways women chose to live in the 20th century.
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The Unfinished Palazzo is celebrated for its engaging storytelling about three intriguing women. Reviewers describe it as well-researched and gloriously gossipy, with a delightful narrative full of reinvention and rebellion. It's praised for its cleverness, entertaining pace, and rich anecdotes, making it a dazzling and fascinating read.
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ISBN: 9780500294437
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 July 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: 38 Illustrations, black and white; 76 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 390g
Pages: 408
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About the Author
Judith Mackrell is the Guardian’s dance critic and a successful author of biographical non-fiction titles, including Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes,which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, and Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation, which combines the biographies of six women whose lives together encapsulated the history of the flapper era.
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