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Revolutionary Domesticity in the Italian Risorgimento
"This book examines how a group of transnational British-Italian women affiliated with the exiled patriots of the Italian Left repurposed traditionally feminine activities, such as fundraising, gift-giving, maternity, and memory collection, to make a substantial contribution to Italian Unification and state-building. Through their actions, Mary Chambers, Sara Nathan, Giorgina Saffi, Julia Salis Schwabe, and Jessie White Mario transcended the boundaries of acceptable behavior for middle-class women and participated in the broader female emancipation movement. By drawing attention to their activities, this book reveals how nineteenth-century female activists achieved their most revolutionary goals by using conservative, domestic, or anti-Catholic language. Adding to the growing understanding of the Italian Risorgimento as a transnational phenomenon, it also shows how non-Catholic and non-Italian women participated in the creation and development of the Italian state. Finally, the book argues for the continuing importance of religion in both politics and philanthropy throughout the nineteenth century."
Transnational Imaginations of Socialism
Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bearers of political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian towns located in the Western bloc, guided by socialist-oriented administrations, and their "twin" counterparts in the German Democratic Republic. This volume explores the connections initiated by such towns in the 1960s-1970s, focusing on socialist-specific conceptions which fueled the polic...
The Velvet Hours
From the international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Garden of Letters, comes a story—inspired by true events—of two women pursuing freedom and independence in Paris during WWII. As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return. An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her impoverished childhood in the dark alleys of Montmartre. With Europe on the brink of war, she shares her story with her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron, using her prized possessions to reveal her innermost secrets. Most striking of all are a beautiful string of pearls and a magnificent portrait of Marthe painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini. As Marthe’s tale unfolds, like velvet itself, stitched with its own shadow and light, it helps to guide Solange on her own path. Inspired by the true account of an abandoned Parisian apartment, Alyson Richman brings to life Solange, the young woman forced to leave her fabled grandmother’s legacy behind to save all that she loved.
Giorgio Arcoleo e i teologi del dispotismo
Dopo gli iniziali interessi letterari, il giurista siciliano Giorgio Arcoleo (1850-1914) si dedicò agli studi di diritto pubblico a partire dalla metà degli anni Settanta del XIX secolo. Il decennio successivo sarebbe stato caratterizzato dal progressivo affermarsi anche in Italia, ad opera soprattutto di Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, del "metodo giuridico" nella scienza del diritto pubblico, teso a depurare la riflessione dei giuristi sullo Stato da commistioni di natura storico-politica. Giorgio Arcoleo fu tra quei giuristi – destinati a rimanere una minoranza – che si opposero a questa tendenza, nella convinzione che essa ostacolasse un’interpretazione dello Statuto come documento vo...
Pianificare la modernizzazione. Istituzioni e classe politica in Sardegna 1959-1969
Attraverso lo scavo nella documentazione archivistica, l’esame delle fonti, la lettura critica della storiografia, un approccio metodologico fondato sulla rigorosa contestualizzazione degli avvenimenti, l’Autore ricostruisce una parte fondamentale della s
