Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: What exactly is this book about?

I have to say that I have never read a book quite like this. It starts with the fire at the Fenice, moves on to Ezra Pound, goes back to the fire, then spends lots of pages on the petty squables within the Save Venice organization; no connection is made, or attempted, between any of these disparate topics. An monumental waste of time.