Volume 28, Number 3 · March 5, 1981
The Doge's Secrets
By Peter Burke
The Pope, His Banker, and Venice
by Felix Gilbert
Harvard University Press, 157 pp., $12.50
Historians are already trying to assess the cultural consequences of the diaspora of the 1930s, and especially the effects on local traditions (of architecture, say, or economics) of the arrival in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere of so many artists and intellectuals from Central Europe. It is salutary to remember not only that the ripples have not ceased from spreading but also that some of the émigrés are still active.
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