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What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882) brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the Americas as he did in Europe, becoming an international freedom fighter, earning the title of the "hero of two worlds," and making himself perhaps the most famous and beloved man of his century. Alfonso Scirocco's Garibaldi is the most up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive, and convincing biography of Garibaldi yet written. In vivid narrative style and unprecedented detail, and drawing on many new sources that shed fresh light on important event...
Bernini at Saint Peter's may be a unique case in history: a single artist in change of a grandiose monument in a continuous state of creativity under constantly changing patrons and a variety of projects, for nearly six decades. This book argues that a continuous thread of thought may be discerned underlying and connecting the vicissitudes of this spectacular display. From first to last, Gianlorenzo Bernini conceived of Saint Peter's as a pilgrimage church, a kind of pilgrimage of human life, his own and of the believers who visited the basilica to worship and give testimony. Irving Lavin is professor emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princet...
Part 1 includes Europe, part 2 includes Outside of Europe.
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Tutti i grandi personaggi che hanno lasciato un segno nella storia, sia teorici che uomini d'azione, sono stati, nel tempo, oggetto di appropriazioni, rivendicazioni, collocazioni più o meno debite da parte di studiosi, forze politiche, movimenti ideologici e differenti correnti artistiche e di pensiero. Un personaggio del carisma di Garibaldi non poteva certo sfuggire a questa legge. Proprio in ragione della centralità della sua figura all'interno del dibattito culturale e politico nazionale e internazionale, al Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del bicentenario della nascita di Giuseppe Garibaldi, è parso opportuno pubblicare il volume Giuseppe Garibaldi: due secoli di interpretazi...