Editing Venice (section)

==== In literature and adapted works ====
The city is a particularly popular setting for essays, novels, and other works of fictional or non-fictional literature. Examples of these include:
* [[Aretino]]'s works (1492–1556)
* [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Merchant of Venice]]'' ({{circa|1596–1598}}) and ''[[Othello]]'' (1603).
* [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[Volpone]]'' (1605–6).
* [[Casanova]]'s autobiographical [[Histoire de ma vie|''History of My Life'']] {{circa|1789–1797}}.
* [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]'' (1759).
* [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] wrote poetry for two pictures of Venice; one for ''The Embarkation'', drawn by [[Clarkson Stanfield]] for The Amulet, 1833, the other for ''Santa Salute'', drawn by [[Charles Bentley (painter)|Charles Bentley]] for the Literary Souvenir, 1835.
* [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''[[Across the River and into the Trees]]'' (1950).
* [[Italo Calvino]]'s ''[[Invisible Cities]]'' (1972).
* [[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[Cry to Heaven]]'' (1982).
* [[Donna Leon]]'s Commissario Guido Brunetti [[crime fiction]] series and cookbook, and the German television series based on the novels (1992–2019).
* [[Philippe Sollers]]' ''[[Watteau in Venice]]'' (1994).
* [[Michael Dibdin]]'s ''[[Dead Lagoon]]'' (1994), one in a series of novels featuring Venice-born policeman Aurelio Zen.
* [[Jacqueline Carey]]'s ''[[Kushiel's Chosen]]'' (2002), an [[historical fantasy]] or [[alternate history]] of Venice – complete with masquerades, canals, and a doge – taking place in a city known as La Serenissima.
* [[John Berendt]]'s ''The City of Falling Angels'' (2005)
* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s [[comic opera]] ''[[The Gondoliers]]'' (1889)
* [[Thomas Mann]]'s novella, ''[[Death in Venice]]'' (1912), was the basis for Benjamin Britten's [[Death in Venice (opera)|eponymous opera]] (1973).