The pursuit of Italy : a history of a land, its regions and their peoples / David Gilmour
Imprint
London : Penguin Books, 2012
Descript
xv, 447 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm
CONTENT
Diverse Italies. Fractured geography ; Italian peoples ; Linguistic Italy -- Imperial Italies. Roman Italy ; Barbarian and Byzantine Italy ; Italia Germanica -- Cities and powers. Communal dreams ; Communal realities ; Republican Italy ; Princely Italy -- Adriatic Venice -- Disputed Italies. Foreign rulers ; Enlightened Italy ; Napoleonic Italy ; Italy and the Restoration -- Revolutionary Italies. Romantic Italy ; Insurgent Italy ; Operatic Italy -- The making of Italy. Piedmont, 1850s ; Lombardy and the duchies, 1859 ; Sicily and Naples, 1860 ; Venice (1866) and Rome (1870) -- Legendary Italy. The generation of giants ; The wisest statesman ; The noblest Roman ; Father of the nation ; Some generals and an admiral ; The Risorgimento without heroes -- Making Italians. Piedmont comes to Naples ; Sicily goes downhill ; Rome and Parliament ; Beautiful legends ; The quest for glory ; The bear of Busseto -- Nationalist Italy. Little Italy ; Bellicose Italy ; Ruptured Italy -- Fascist Italy. Italia Romana ; Italia Imperiale -- Cold War Italy. Christian Democrats ; Communists ; Affluent Italy -- Modern Italy. Centrifugal Italy ; Berlusconi ; Resilient Italy