If Venice Dies

submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures on 10/06/18 1

Salvatore Settis pleads for the survival of Venice in a moving discussion on the meaning of cities. Speaker Biography: Salvatore Settis is chairman of the Louvre Museum's Scientific Council and a widely-published archaeologist and art historian. He was director of the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles, and professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. Speaker Biography: Michael Wise is co-founder of New Vessel Press, publisher of the English translation of "If Venice Dies." Wise has been a foreign correspondent for Reuters and The Washington Post and is the author of a book on German architecture. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7716

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