| Author | : Raymond A. Belliotti |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Italy |
| ISBN | : 1683933702 |
Belliotti analyzes the role of positive duties in moral theory, the efficacy of theocratic republicanism, strategies for political revolutions, the implications of an enduring Sicilian ethos, and the profits and perils of the individual-community continuum, while distinctively interpreting the lives and ideologies of Mazzini, Gramsci, and Giuliano.
| Author | : Sergio Luzzatto |
| Publisher | : Picador |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-01-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781250097194 |
No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and influential as Primo Levi. But Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian Resistance, he took part in the first efforts at guerrilla warfare against Nazi forces. Yet those months are strikingly unmentioned in Levi’s writings---aside from one obscure passage hinting that his deportation to Auschwitz was linked directly to an “ugly secret” from that time. What did Levi mean by those dramatic words? His small partisan band, it appears, had turned on itself, committing a brutal act against two of its own members. Using that shocking episode as a starting point, Sergio Luzzatto offers a rich examination of the early days of the Resistance, tracing vivid portraits of both rebels and Nazi collaborators. And he provides profound insight into the origins of the moral complexity that runs through the work of Primo Levi himself.
| Author | : Shirley Ann Smith |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2012-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1611475023 |
Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recent scholarship on both the Liberal and Fascist Italian colonial enterprises centers on the Mediterranean and Northern Africa: expeditions, wars, ultimate occupation of territories, and their effect on Italy. This study looks at three Italian enclaves on the other side of the globe: Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. These present both a window into the Italian experience in the Far East and confirmation of imperial policy. Their very presence confirms the rhetoric of conquest. Journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.; diplomats Salvago Raggi, Varè, and Ciano; various military personnel; and other foreign nationals tell the story through letters and diaries. They all interact with the local metropolitan and rural poor and cultivate a generalized colonial white man’s detachment from their surroundings. A brief summary of the presence of chinoiserie in the Italian imaginary shows how the Celestial Empire has continued to function in the construction of Italian identity as part of the dichotomy between self and other.
| Author | : David Aliano |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2012-08-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1611475775 |
During the 1920s and 1930s, Mussolini’s fascist regime attempted to promote fascist Italy’s national project in Argentina, bombarding the republic with its propaganda. Although politically a failure, this propaganda provoked a debate over the idea of a national identity outside of the nation-state and the potential roles that citizens living abroad could play in their country of origin. In propagating an Italian national identity within another sovereign state, Mussolini’s initiative also inspired heated debate among native Argentines over their own national project as a nation of immigrants. Using the experiences of Mussolini’s efforts in Argentina as its case study, this book demonstrates how national projects take on different meanings once they enter a contested public space. It details how both members of the Italian community as well as native Argentines reshaped Italy’s national discourse from abroad by entangling it with Argentina’s own national project. In exploring the way in which nations are imagined, constructed, and recast both from above as well as from below, Mussolini’s National Project in Argentina offers new perspectives on the politics of identity formation while providing a transatlantic example of the dynamic interplay between the Italian state and its emigrant communities. It is in short, a transnational perspective on what it means to belong to a nation.
| Author | : David I. Kertzer |
| Publisher | : HMH |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2006-02-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0547347162 |
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s “fascinating” account of the political battles that led to the end of the Papal States (Entertainment Weekly). From a National Book Award–nominated author, this absorbing history chronicles the birth of modern Italy and the clandestine politics behind the Vatican’s last stand in the battle between the church and the newly created Italian state. When Italy’s armies seized the Holy City and claimed it for the Italian capital, Pope Pius IX, outraged, retreated to the Vatican and declared himself a prisoner, calling on foreign powers to force the Italians out of Rome. The action set in motion decades of political intrigue that hinged on such fascinating characters as Garibaldi, King Viktor Emmanuel, Napoleon III, and Chancellor Bismarck. Drawing on a wealth of secret documents long buried in the Vatican archives, David I. Kertzer reveals a fascinating story of outrageous accusations, mutual denunciations, and secret dealings that will leave readers hard-pressed to ever think of Italy, or the Vatican, in the same way again. “A rousing tale of clerical skullduggery and topsy-turvy politics, laced with plenty of cross-border intrigue.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
| Author | : Susan Amatangelo |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Italy |
| ISBN | : 9781611479539 |
Italian Women at War explores Italian women's participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern history, beginning with the Unification and ending with the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, help to further the discussion on women's participation in violence, warfare, and political protest throughout Italy.
| Author | : James Fentress |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Crime |
| ISBN | : 9780801435393 |
Fentress, a former political philosophy professor at Brunel U. in London, England and current resident of Italy, describes the historical emergence and evolution of the Mafia, from the early- to mid-19th century Sicilian alliances between "men of honor" and intellectuals in the struggle for independence from the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples to the longstanding covert relationships that are protecting today's mafiosi. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : T. Adolphus Trollope |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2018-04-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3732636208 |
Reproduction of the original: A Decade of Italian Women by T. Adolphus Trollope
| Author | : Thomas Adolphus Trollope |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 817 |
| Release | : 2020-09-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This book features the biographical accounts of ten women selected by the author not so much with any intention of bringing together the best, greatest, or most admirable, nor even the most remarkable women Italy has produced, as with a view of securing the greatest amount of variety, in point of social position and character. Each figure of the small gallery was intended to illustrate a distinct phase of Italian social life and civilization: the canonized Saint, that most extraordinary product of the "ages of faith," highly interesting as a social, and perhaps more so still as a psychological phenomenon; the feudal Châtelaine, one of the most remarkable results of the feudal system, and affording a suggestive study of woman in man's place; the high-born and highly-educated Princess of a somewhat less rude day, whose inmost spiritual nature was so profoundly and injuriously modified by her social position; the brilliant literary denizen of "La Bohème", etc. All these were curiously distinct manifestations of womanhood, and if any measure of success has been attained in the endeavor to represent them duly surrounded by the social environment which produced them, while they helped to fashion it, some contribution will have been made to a right understanding of woman's nature, and of the true road towards her more completely satisfactory social development._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)_x000D_ Caterina Sforza (1462-1509)_x000D_ Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547)_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Tullia D'Aragona (c. 1510 - c. 1570)_x000D_ Olympia Morata (1526-1555)_x000D_ Isabella Andreini (1562-1604)_x000D_ Bianca Cappello (1548-1587)_x000D_ Olympia Pamfili (1594-1656)_x000D_ Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665)_x000D_ La Corilla (1740-1800)
