From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishDeath in VeniceˌDeath in ˈVenice (1912) a novel by Thomas Mann, which was made into a film in 1971, about a successful writer in Venice who falls in love with a beautiful Polish boy and therefore does not want to leave the city, even though there is cholera there. He stays, and finally dies from the disease. The film is also remembered for its beautiful, sad music, by Gustav Mahler.
