Venice: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Venice by Mortimer Menpes; Dorothy Menpes: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 4:52:32 running time and a link to listen.
Venice, credited to Mortimer Menpes; Dorothy Menpes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Venice by Mortimer Menpes; Dorothy Menpes. Read in English by Phil Benson. Following his assignment to South Africa as Black and White Magazine's war artist, Mortimer Menpes travelled extensively, becoming the artist of choice for A. & C. Black's colour guide book series. His guide to Venice, co-authored with his daughter, Dorothy Menpes, contained 75 watercolour illustrations. Menpes's text, which serves well as a guide to the art and architecture of present-day Venice, is enlivened by his enthusiasm for everything Venetian, and especially by his satirical portrait of the community of foreign artists who gather at the Panada restaurant. - Summary by Phil Benson
Recording facts
- Recording title: Venice
- Author credits: Mortimer Menpes; Dorothy Menpes
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 4:52:32
Catalogue topics
- art
- Italy
- venice
- architecture
Track guide
- 01 - Arrival and First Impresssions — 20:48
- 02 - History — 29:21
- 03 - A Glimpse Into Bohemia — 20:25
- 04 - Architecture — 29:09
- 05 - St. Mark's — 16:02
- 06 - Painters of the Renaissance — 47:10
- 07 - Streets, Shops, and Courtyards — 32:49
- 08 - The Islands of the Lagoon — 30:55
- 09 - Social Ups and Downs — 24:34
- 10 - Gondolas and Gondoliers — 41:19
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