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{{Short description|1912 novella by Thomas Mann}}
{{About|Thomas Mann's novella|other uses|Death in Venice (disambiguation)}}
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| name              = Death in Venice
| title_orig        = {{Lang|de|Der Tod in Venedig}}
| translator        = 
| image             = 1913 Der Tod in Venedig Broschur.jpg
| author            = [[Thomas Mann]]
| cover_artist      = 
| country           = Germany
| language          = German
| genre             = Novella
| publisher         = [[S. Fischer Verlag]]
| release_date      = 1912
| english_pub_date  = 1924 (periodical), 1925 (book)
| isbn              = <!--n/a-->
| oclc              = 71208736
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| external_url      = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124817/page/n393/mode/2up
| external_host     = [[Internet Archive]]
}}

'''''Death in Venice '''''({{Langx|de|Der Tod in Venedig}}) is a [[novella]] by German author [[Thomas Mann]], published in 1912.<ref>[[:File:1912 DerTod in Venedig.jpg|Image of the first edition]]</ref> It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a boy in a family of Polish tourists—Tadzio, a nickname for Tadeusz. Tadzio was likely based on a boy named [[#The real Tadzio|Władzio]] whom Mann had observed during his 1911 visit to the city.