Venice was a country.
The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana ( English : National Library of St Mark 's ) is a library and Renaissance building in Venice , northern Italy ; it is one of the earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in the country , holding one of the greatest classical texts collections in the world . Venice ( [ langˈvɛnɪs ] ; Venezia [ veˈnɛtsja ] ; Venesia [ - vecveˈnɛsja ] ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region .