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African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the City of the Lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlight images of Black people in the Venetian art from the Middle Ages to the present, the afterlife of Shakespear's Othello, the painful local legacies of slavery and Italian colonialism, as well as the remarkable visibility of African and Afro-descenant artists at the Venice Biennale. These tours are enriched by more thant twenty essays, poems and reflections, which celebrate, question and reimagine Venice's black past and present. From medieval and renasissance paintings and sculpture to contemporary artworks, from early modern documents to postcolonical voices, African Venice will show you the city as you have never seen it.--Cover.