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VENICE: DECLINE AND FALL - Coggle Diagram
VENICE: DECLINE AND FALL
THEORY
Between the end of the 18th century and the first decade of the 19th century, Venice saw
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Byron, as well as Shelley, Rogers, Trollope, deal with a FALLEN VENICE
BYRON
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The descriptions are not given with accurate topography, but are presented in a way similar to Turner’s paintings
Venice is painted as a DYING GLORY, it is dying because of the fall of the city
For Byron Venice is above all an ispiration, it must do a lot with imagination
In his work, there are 3 Venices
A present one, insubstantial: the Venice of imagination
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RISE AND FALL
Venice compared to a dolphin, Venice becomes a product of magic. Just like a dolphin, Venice and its origins rise from the water and die in the water again.
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ROGERS
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Roger takes the topos of the fall and the beauty and adds the sense of pride that the traveller feels in the city
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Venice is a museum
TROLLOPE
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She challenges the sense of doom, of fall, of decay
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RUSKIN
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BEGINNING OF CHAPTER 2
Description of the gondola, which becomes the great character of Venice, together with gondoliers
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