Venice

Henry James wrote extensively about Venice in Portraits of places (Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1883), republishing those writings in Italian hours (same publisher, 1909). He never came back to write about Venice. But the city is omni-present in his novels, notebooks (Palazzo Barbaro and Casa Biondetti, his Venetian residences, appear in more than one occasion there) and letters. Out of the Aspern papers, as everyone knows entirely set in Venice, the city also appears into The American, The Portrait of a lady, The Princess Casamassima. This book republishes the five writings about Venice that appear in Portraits of places, together with the snippets where Venice is mentioned in all his known Letters, as published by Percy Lubbock (in two volumes, under the title The letters of Henry James, Charles Scribner’s sons, New York 1920).