Screen LibraryThe pursuit of Italy：a history of a land, its regions, and their peoples
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 447 p., [16] p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374283162 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374283168 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K546 |
| CLC: | K546.0 |
| Call Number: | K546.0/G488 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 Rom The author, a historian has provided a coherent, persuasive, and entertaining interpretation of the paradoxes of Italian life, past and present. Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The author's exploration of Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled with the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero to the Medicis, from Garibaldi to the politicians of the twentieth century. Gilmour's account of the Risorgimento, t |