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by Romualdo M. De Velazquez
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This is a translation of a text from 1861, unreleased outside Spain, written by an alleged eyewitness to the events of the Risorgimento, as they happen. After an introduction on the framework of the European and Italian political situation that led to the "Expedition of the Mille", the book...
Violence and Justice in Bologna
1250–1700
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city’s singularly rich archival resources, the authors...
Walks and Treks in the Maritime Alps
The Mercantour and Alpi Marittime Parks
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Guidebook to walking and trekking in the Maritime Alps on the border of Italy and France, just north of Nice. It includes 18 graded day walks, on both the French and the Italian sides, ranging from 6km to 20km in length and suitable for a range of abilities. There are also 6 longer treks, including...
Mussolini 1883-1915
Triumph and Transformation of a Revolutionary Socialist
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book describes Mussolini’s little-known radical ideology, including his activities in Switzerland, relationship with revolutionary syndicalism, and radical journalism. It provides an in-depth treatment of the young Benito Mussolini as a revolutionary Socialist and describes the political maneuverings...
Reviewing Mario Pratesi
The Critical Press and Its Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
A prolific member of the Tuscan verismo school of literary realism, Mario Pratesi (1842–1921) was much respected during his career but sadly neglected after his death. Using Pratesi’s personal archive, now preserved at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, Reviewing Mario Pratesi takes...
Unfinished Business
Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade. It provides insightful analyses of popular films that sensationalize violence, scapegoat women, or repress the homosexuality of male protagonists. Dana Renga examines these works through the lens of gender and...
The Other Renaissance
Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since: bring them back together. Telling the story of modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as one of ongoing change within an international framework. It takes as its unifying theme the idea of exchange and interchange through the movement of goods,...
by Patricia Borlenghi
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
An historical novel, set in Northern Italy at the turn of the last century, relates the adventures of an intelligent and vivacious peasant girl, Zaira, whose lust for life and keen desire for self-improvement launch her on a journey into the twentieth-century.
Murder and Media in the New Rome
The Fadda Affair
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself.
Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes
Eastern Influences on Rome and the Papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590-752
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes examines the scope and extent to which the East influenced Rome and the Papacy following the Justinian Reconquest of Italy in the middle of the sixth century through the pontificate of Zacharias and the collapse of the exarchate of Ravenna in 752. A combination of...
Imperial Designs
Italians in China 1900–1947
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recent scholarship on both the Liberal and Fascist Italian colonial enterprises centers on the Mediterranean and Northern Africa:...
by Antonio Ciano
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Data in hand, this volume offers an accurate analysis of the economic situation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from its establishment to its dissolution by the Savoyard army. A must-read for anyone who wants to deepen the historical context in which the economy of the Bourbon kingdom developed,...
A Tragedy Revealed
The Story of Italians from Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1943-1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
As the Second World War drew to a close, European borders were being redrawn. The regions of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, nominally Italian but at various times also belonging to Austria and Germany, fell under the rule of Yugoslavia and its dictator Marshal Tito. The ensuing removal and...