CITY OF VENICE
LECTURE TO PENWOMEN At the meetings of the League of New Zealand Penwomen, a series of travel talks is being given. Testerday afternoon the speaker was Mrs. Isobel Maud Cluett, who took as her subject "Venice, Ancient and Modern.” Mrs. Cluett spoke of thf; time when Vencie was nothing but a collection of fishermen’s huts, and so up to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when its arts were only rivalled by Florence. The Venice of to-day, she said, was only a shadow of the great and wonderful city it had been when it was known throughout the world as the Queen of the Adriatic. It had grown old and worn, but it still had the power to fascinate and inspire. The peacefulness of the city was one of its great charms to-day, and everywhere was felt the spell of its past magnificence. Mrs. Cluett also spoke of the wonderful churches, the doges’ palace, the shops, and the industries of Venice.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 13
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