by Antero de Quental · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789899934955
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«Veneza» is the literary work by Antero de Quental, published by Edições do Saguão in paperback (in Portuguese).
The book gathers the version Antero de Quental made of a text about Venice, translated and recreated from the work of Thomas George Bonney and from «Voyage en Italie» by Hippolyte Taine, with passages of his own authorship. This edition adds the original illustrations, Bonney's English text and a selection of Taine's notes.
The text originally appeared in 1881 in «A Europa Pittoresca». Edition organised, introduced and annotated by Andrea Ragusa, with engravings by Harry Fenn, P. Skelton and Edward Whymper Senior.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century Portuguese literature and in illustrated editions of travel texts about Venice.
Antero Tarquínio de Quental was a Portuguese poet, philosopher, and writer. Quental is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his generation and is recognized as one of the most influential Portuguese language artists of all time. His name is often mentioned alongside Luís Vaz de Camões, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Fernando Pessoa.
