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Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in Sicily and provoked the collapse of the Bourbon monarchy, the overthrow of papal power in central Italy, and the creation of the Italian nation state. It made him a global icon, representing strength, bravery, manliness, saintliness, and a spirit of adventure. Handsome, flamboyant, and sexually attrac...
War & Art
War and Art: The Preservation of Italian Treasures is the result of a joint effort by the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento in Rome, the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, and the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C.. All joined forces to ensure that the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War is not forgotten. On July 27, 2014 the Embassy of Italy remembered the last day of peace before the tragedy of WWI with a touching ceremony. At Arlington National Cemetery, a trumpeter played the moving notes of our “The Silence” – our equivalent of “Taps” in the US, and traditionally performed when bidding farewell to the fallen ...
The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy
From the Roman Empire to the present day, this is the story of Italy. Until just over a century ago, Italy did not exist as a political unit, yet it was both the heart of the Christian Church and the seedbed for the extraordinary cultural flowering that was the Renaissance. In the middle ages, the merchants of Florence, Genoa, and Venice bridged Asia and Europe with their trading and financial activities, yet Italy remained a region of fiercely independent city-states. In the nineteenth century an upsurge of nationalist fervour was channelled by Garibaldi into a victorious war against Italy's Habsburg overlords. A political vision was finally realized and the nation of Italy was created.This extensively illustrated survey by twelve leading historians offers a fascinating introduction to the history and culture of Italy.
La forza del destino
Da quando è nata tra alti clamori – mandando all'aria l'equilibrio geopolitico europeo – la più giovane delle grandi nazioni occidentali è una fucina di ambizioni e frustrazioni, slanci e sconfitte, un amalgama esplosivo che la rende, ancora oggi, un autentico vaso di Pandora. Christopher Duggan segue la lunga scia tracciata dall'idea di 'nazione' dall'Unità di Mazzini, Garibaldi e Cavour fino al principio del nuovo millennio e rintraccia quel filo rosso del destino italico che ha spinto verso l'unificazione un paese segnato da contraddizioni apparentemente insormontabili. La lettura di queste pagine, dense e scorrevolissime, è illuminante per la sagacia con la quale l'autore sa individuare e isolare alcune linee di tendenza che, dai primi moti risorgimentali, arrivano fino ai giorni nostri. Corrado Augias, "il venerdì di Repubblica"
War & Art
War and Art: The Preservation of Italian Treasures is the result of a joint effort by the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento in Rome, the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, and the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C.. All joined forces to ensure that the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War is not forgotten. On July 27, 2014 the Embassy of Italy remembered the last day of peace before the tragedy of WWI with a touching ceremony. At Arlington National Cemetery, a trumpeter played the moving notes of our “The Silence” – our equivalent of “Taps” in the US, and traditionally performed when bidding farewell to the fallen ...
Rise of the International
International Relations and History were once academic fields sharing a common concern with the affairs of empires, states, and nations. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, they drifted apart. International Relations largely retained the focus on the affairs and relations of these principal international actors but took a methodological turn leading to higher levels of theoretical abstraction. History, on the other hand, retained the methods that define the discipline but shifted the focus, veering away from matters of state to the vast array of actors, events, activities, and issues that colour everyday life. In recent years, the drift has been arrested by scholars in each di...
Under the Volcano
Explores the riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte, on the slopes of Mount Etna and under the domination of British landowners and links this event to larger themes of poverty, injustice, mismanagement, and Britain's policy towards Italy in the 19th century.
A Companion to Italian Constitutional History (1804-1938)
'This is the first account in English of the making of Italian nationhood from the perspective of constitutional history. It is also the first to consider the role that the House of Savoy played in this process. Bringing together influential experts in the field, the collection covers the evolution of the Italian constitution from Russian diplomacy’s little-known planning of the Risorgimento to the monarchy’s demise after its clashes with fascism. Combining systematic coverage with original research, the volume includes such varied themes as the king’s role in the Italian wars of independence, the Italian peninsula’s forgotten charters of 1848, and the story of the ephemeral building that housed the first Italian parliament. Contributors are: Carolina Armenteros, Andrea Ungari, Paolo Colombo, Frans Willem Lantink, Christian Satto, Giulio Stolfi, Valentina Villa, Tommaso Zerbi, and Romano Ferrari Zumbini.
Radici. La memoria del passato e le nuove generazioni
Questo catalogo fa parte del progetto RADICI che si propone di far affiorare quel vasto patrimonio, di testimonianze storiche e documentarie, spesso custodito da singoli privati. Sono tracce di memorie personali o familiari – foto, cimeli, documenti – che acquistano il loro più specifico significato solo se messe in relazione con un contesto storico e documentario più ampio. Oggi questo patrimonio storico può essere acquisito e reso fonte di studio anche grazie alle nuove tecnologie digitali ed informatiche. Il progetto RADICI consentirà di far interagire i documenti storici del singolo con il più vasto patrimonio documentario, posseduto da Archivi e Biblioteche istituzionali, consentendo l'individuazione delle Radici personali all'interno delle testimonianze storiche del XIX e XX secolo. I destinatari del progetto sono, insieme alle Nuove Generazioni – che si troveranno ad interagire con le più moderne tecnologie al fine di rintracciare i rapporti tra la storia familiare e quella nazionale – quanti sono in possesso di documenti storici e desiderano condividerli.
