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Italy : an illustrated history / Joseph F. Privitera.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Privitera, Joseph F., 1914-2007.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italy--History--Pictorial works.
- Italy.
- History.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 142 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hippocrene Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- "A history shorn of a country's cultural element is not a true history of its people. A history that does not reflect the societal contributions of its poets, artists and musicians is incomplete. Without Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Vivaldi, Ariosto, Alfieri, Verdi, Puccini, Manzoni, Quasimodo and Pirandello, the Italy of the past dissolves". This illustrated history adheres to the above lines which open it. Written in an accessible style, it covers the full panoply of Italy's history -- from Roman days to the twenty-first century.
- Contents:
- Italy: The Cradle of Civilization xi
- The Boot, Lo Stivale 1
- 476 A.D.: Enter the Barbarians and the Middle Ages 2
- The Lombards 6
- The Papacy 8
- The Frankish Emperors 8
- The Saracens 10
- The Normans 11
- The City-States 12
- Frederick II (1194-1250) 14
- Italian: The Glue that Binds 14
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) 17
- The Renaissance 21
- Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464) 23
- Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492) 25
- The Other Powers 30
- The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 30
- The Papal States 32
- Venice 40
- Genoa 41
- Milan 41
- The High Renaissance 43
- The Age of Invasions: 1495-1814 60
- Charles VIII, King of France, Invades Italy 60
- Louis XII, King of France, Follows Suit 61
- Pope Julius II 63
- Spanish-Austrian Ascendancy 64
- Reign of Philip II 65
- Extinction of the Old Ducal Families 67
- The Decline of Venice and Spain 67
- The Wars of Succession 68
- Forty-Four Years of Peace 69
- Italy in the Napoleonic Period: 1796-1814 70
- Bonaparte in Italy 72
- Il Risorgimento: 1815-1870 75
- Austrian Rule in Italy 75
- Reaction in the Italian States 76
- The Carbonari 78
- Revolutions of 1830 78
- Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Cavour 79
- Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) 80
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) 84
- 1860 88
- 1861 90
- 1862-1882 90
- Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810-1861) 92
- There was Prose, Poetry, and Music, Too 100
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) 100
- Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) 100
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) 101
- Forging A Modern Italy: 1871-1920 103
- The Triple Alliance 105
- Francesco Crispi (1818-1901) 105
- Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) 106
- End of the Triple Alliance 107
- Italy Moves Toward War 107
- Italy at War: 1915-1918 108
- The Dark Age of Fascism: 1920-1945 109
- Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) 109
- The March on Rome, Via Sleeping Car 115
- Il Duce: 1922-1939 116
- 1939 to 1945: The End 120
- Reconstruction and Italy Today: 1945-2000 122
- The Italian Republic 122
- 1948-1960 123
- De Gasperi and the Christian Democrats 123
- The Other Parties 125
- The Economy Surges in the 1960s 125
- Aldo Moro 126
- The 1970s: Cultural Revolution and Terrorism 126
- At the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century 128
- The Cultural Scene 129.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0781808197
- OCLC:
- 44627391
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