Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Venetian Modernity: A Troubled Present -- 1. "The Entanglement of Memory": Reciprocal Interference of Present and Past in Ruskin's Venetian Histories -- 2. Nearer Distances and Clearer Mysteries: Between Patches and Presence in James's "Visitable Past" -- 3. Adriatic Fantasies: Venetian Modernism Between Decadence, Futurism, and the World Wars -- 4. From Passéism to Anachronism: Material Histories in Pound's Venice -- 5. Fabulous Planning: Unbuilt Venices -- Coda: Laguna/Lacuna -- Notes -- Index