Routledge, 2014. — 336 p. Since unification, Italy has grown from a backward agrarian society into one of the world's leading industrial powers. Yet her history exhibits spectacular disunities, inconsistencies and paradoxes. Dominated by political Catholicism, she has also been home to Fascism, the mafia, and the largest Communist movement outside the Eastern Bloc. Her politics...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 314 p. Incorporating the latest developments in the study of the period, a team of leading international scholars provides a fresh and dynamic picture of a period of great transformation in the political, cultural, and economic life of the Italian peninsula, which witnessed the rise of autonomous city states in the north, the creation of a...
Routledge, 1995. — 512 p. The French invasion of Italy under Charles VIII in 1494-1495 has long been seen as inaugurating a new and wretched era in Italian history. The present volume, the work of an international team of contributors, seeks to question that assumption by focusing anew on the intricate politics of Renaissance Italy and the long history of Angevin attempts to...
Time Life Education, 1982. — 216 p. In 1934, the Italians who shouted "Duce! Duce!" did not know their leader would take them into world war and national ruin. Details the rise and fall of Benito Mussolini along with the impact of World War II on Italy. This is one sad story as Italy was unprepared for war and yet was at the mercy of a dictator striving for relevance. Most of...
Routledge, 2019. — 205 p. This book examines the role of women in Jewish family negotiations, using the setting of Italy from the end of the Renaissance to the Baroque. In ghettos at night and under the scrutiny of inquisitions, Jews flourished. Life and learning were enriched by Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, the Ottoman Empire, transalpine Europe, west and east, and...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2017. — 440 p. If you are a fan of Cambridge histories either modern, or medieval, then you will find yourself relishing the vigor with which Ms. Ady approaches the subject. I found the chapter on Galeazzo Maria Sforza to be far too curt, and far too dry for my taste. However the bulk of the book which focuses on Francesco Sforza I, and...
University of Chicago Press, 2002. — 298 p. How do the places where people live help structure and restructure their sociopolitical identities and interests? In this book, renowned political geographer John A. Agnew presents a theoretical model that addresses the relation of place to politics and applies it to a series of historico-geographical case studies set in modern Italy....
Res Gestae, 2016. — 422 p. L'unificazione italiana rivive attraverso la corrispondenza, i documenti e le testimonianze dei principali protagonisti dell'epoca restituendoci un reale processo storico che, lungi dall'essere idilliaco, fu di drammatica lotta. Non si tratta di una raccolta dai toni celebrativi, ma di una ricostruzione che, dando voce agli attori stessi delle vicende...
Res Gestae, 2016. — 494 p. L'unificazione italiana rivive attraverso la corrispondenza, i documenti e le testimonianze dei principali protagonisti dell'epoca restituendoci un reale processo storico che, lungi dall'essere idilliaco, fu di drammatica lotta. Non si tratta di una raccolta dai toni celebrativi, ma di una ricostruzione che, dando voce agli attori stessi delle vicende...
Routledge, 2019. — 192 p. The aim of this book is to reconstruct the violent nature of the March on Rome and to emphasise its significance in demarcating a real break in the country's history and the beginning of the Fascist dictatorship. This aspect of the March has long been obscured: first by the Fascists' celebratory project, and then by the ironic and reductive...
Laterza, 2022. — 344 p. Nel passaggio tra Quattro e Cinquecento i Gonzaga e Mantova raggiunsero la loro età dell’oro. Di questo periodo, in cui la città virgiliana si trasformò in una delle capitali d’Europa, furono protagonisti incontrastati Francesco II e la moglie Isabella d’Este. I due sposi non potevano essere più diversi: Francesco uomo d’armi e d’azione; Isabella...
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. — 208 р. Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this topic. Part one of the book focuses on heroines who fought for Italy’s...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 547 p. The barbarians of the fifth and sixth centuries were long thought to be races, tribes or ethnic groups who toppled the Roman Empire. This book proposes a new view, through a case study of the Goths of Italy between 489 and 554. The author suggests wholly new ways of understanding barbarian groups and the end of the Western Roman...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 425 p. Why, when so driven by the impetus for autonomy, did the city elites of thirteenth-century Italy turn to men bound to religious orders whose purpose and reach stretched far beyond the boundaries of their often disputed territories? Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200 c.1450 brings together a team of...
Routledge, 2009. — 239 p. This book traces how the experience and legacies of terrorism have determined the form and content of Italian cultural production. It helps to understand how political violence was expressed, symbolized and analysed at different rhetorical, philosophical and linguistic levels.
Sky Pony, 2017. — 208 p. Benito Mussolini was a man of many contradictions but with one driving ambition: to rule Italy and restore it to the power and splendor of the ancient Roman Empire, with himself as the new Caesar. He became the founder of the Fascist movement and dictator of all of Italy. The son of a poor blacksmith who was an ardent Socialist, Mussolini grew up in an...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 232 p. The nature of traditional societies in Mediterranean countries and the effect on those societies brought about in the twentieth century, have long been debated; but in general these debates has started from an assumption of the relatively homogenous nature of traditional peasant society. In this book Pino Arlacchi demolishes that...
Leiden: Brill, 2016. — 551 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 9). A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy is a concise yet comprehensive cutting edge survey of the rise and fall of Italy's first barbarian kingdom, the Ostrogothic state (ca. 489-554 CE). The volume's 18 essays provide readers with probing syntheses of recent scholarship on key topics, from the Ostrogothic...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 277 p. — (Studies in Early Modern European History). Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's history: the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews' enclosure in the ghetto. Scholars have in the past...
Leiden: Brill, 2013. — 520 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 2). Naples was one of the largest cities in early modern Europe, and for about two centuries the largest city in the global empire ruled by the kings of Spain. Its crowded and noisy streets, the height of its buildings, the number and wealth of its churches and palaces, the celebrated natural beauty of its...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 293 p. The Continuity of Feudal Power is an analytic study of a family of the Neapolitan aristocracy during the early modern period, with particular focus on the time of Spanish rule (1503-1707). The Caracciolo marquis of Brienza were a branch of one of the oldest and most powerful clans in the kingdom of Naples, and they numbered among the...
Mondadori, 2015. — 920 p. Nel luglio 1943 gli Alleati sbarcano sulle coste della Sicilia: un evento che imprimerà una svolta decisiva alle sorti della Seconda guerra mondiale e cambierà per sempre la storia italiana. Ma chi erano quegli uomini che alcuni accolsero come liberatori e altri come occupanti? Quale strategia politica e militare li aveva portati ad attaccare il...
Il Mulino, 2017. — 489 p. Quando cadde il regime mussoliniano e l'Italia si divise in due, quanti aderirono alla neonata Repubblica sociale e presero le armi? E quali erano le loro motivazioni e i loro sentimenti? Resoconti di polizia, corrispondenze intercettate dalla censura, diari, memorie e documenti editi e inediti consentono di ricostruire la storia dei fascisti di Salò:...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 334 p. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009. — 255 p. Until the beginning of the 18th century, to be 'Italian' meant to identify with a number of collective memories, rather than a national memory. Yet there are elements of continuity that have shaped Italian identity over the past 1,500 years. Religion, food, art and architecture, a literary language, as well as a particular relationship...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 332 p. In The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessions—colonies, protectorates, and provinces—in Africa and the Balkans, the repatriation of Italian nationals from those territories, and the integration of these "national refugees" into a country devastated...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 192 p. Dark Age Liguria surveys the history of the Liguria region from c. 400 to c. 1050, to provide a detailed case study of what happened here as Roman imperial rule ended. The book pulls together all the surviving evidence, written, archaeological, artistic and ecological, to propose that, in contrast with later periods, Ligurians looked north as...
Routledge, 2020. — 224 p. This book is a translation of La Nazione del Risorgimento, one of the most important and influential works on modern Italian history published in recent years. It analyses the aspects of the ideas of nationhood and patriotism that impassioned and energized the Italian Risorgimento movement during the first half of the nineteenth century. Employing an...
Deputazione Subalpina Storia Patria, 2011. — 264 p. - La donazione dell'alamanno Teutcario dell'810 e le vicende patrimoniali e documentarie della Novalesa. - Cumiana e i Falconieri: la prima esibizione dei poteri locali (secc. XII-XIII). - Note sugli statuti di Cumiana (fine XIII secolo). - Uno stile di vita violento: l'ascesa dei Canalis fra prestiti e offici. - I Canalis e...
Laterza, 2012. — 380 p. Questa è la storia di ciò che accadde a Fenestrelle, ma anche a Torino, a Napoli, a Milano, a Gaeta e in altri luoghi d'Italia, fra il 1860 e il 1861, quando l'esercito delle Due Sicilie venne sconfitto in una guerra non dichiarata, i suoi uomini fatti prigionieri o sbandati, e poi trasportati al Nord per essere arruolati contro la loro volontà...
Laterza, 2018. — 373 p. L'amministrazione sabauda è all'origine di quella dell'Italia unita. Ma come nacque, nel tardo Medioevo, quell'apparato amministrativo? Il ducato di Savoia era una realtà multiforme e contraddittoria, composta da un versante francese e uno italiano, profondamente diversi per lingua e cultura: un vero laboratorio per quello sforzo di innovazione che...
Brepols Publishing, 2020. — 484 p. — (Haut Moyen Âge 40). The volume offers an overview over the most recent developments of research on early medieval Italy and Europe. I 36 contributi raccolti in questo volume sono stati scritti dagli amici, dai colleghi e dagli allievi che hanno incontrato e accompagnato Stefano Gasparri nel corso della sua lunga carriera di studioso e...
Second Edition. — University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 320 p. The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance brings together a selection of primary source documents designed to introduce students to the richness of the period. For this edition, a new chapter on Dante and his time provides a useful transition to the Renaissance from the culture of the Middle Ages. There are also...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 395 p. Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt's classic narrative to guide students through the complex history of the Renaissance and...
Routledge, 2015. — 314 p. This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement, achieved by the Risorgimento, and the Italian unification in 1860. These themes are discussed in detail and related to the broader European theatre. Covering the literary, cultural, religious and political history of the period, Beales and Biagini show Italy...
Routledge, 2022. — 304 p. Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians, but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe. The organization, evolution and purpose of apprenticeship in Southern Europe are much less studied, especially for the early modern...
Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2001. — 416 p. Jusqu'à présent, les historiens de Venise se sont intéressés au groupe des cittadini en raison de la place tenue par les "citoyens originaires" dans la bureaucratie de la République. On se propose ici de dépasser cette image incomplète et schématique d'une noblesse de robe pour saisir, à l'aide de sources émanant...
Steerforth Press, 2006. — 425 p. Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating tale. Emigration of people from Sicily often overshadows the importance of the people who immigrated to the island through the...
Routledge, 2021. — 280 p. This is the first book on Italian colonialism that specifically deals with the question of citizenship/subjecthood. Such a topic is crucial for understanding both Italian imperial rule and the complex dynamics of the different colonial societies where several actors, like notables, political leaders, minorities, etc., were involved. The chapters...
Novi Ligure, 2011. — 320 p. Nell’ultimo ventennio il periodo di dominazione genovese della Corsica (Regnum Corsicae a partire dagli anni trenta del Seicento) è stato rivalutato, epurato da reminiscenze nazionaliste e indipendentiste e fatto oggetto di numerosi e pregevoli studi. In questo ambito le ripetute sollevazioni e i conflitti intestini (comunemente definiti “guerre di...
Novi Ligure, 2014. — 243 p. Il tema della militarizzazione del territorio nell’Italia dell’Ottocento è stato studiato da diversi punti di vista e soprattutto per il ruolo rivestito nella formazione dell’identità nazionale. In questo volume, Emiliano Beri propone una prospettiva differente che, muovendo dalle città di Genova e La Spezia (poli d’interesse strategico per le...
Sapere Edizioni, 1972. — 332 p. Questo libro narra un fatto misconosciuto della storiografia sul fascismo-antifascismo nel nostro paese. E dimostra come una battaglia perduta per la mancata unità delle forze democratiche possa poi decidere per decenni le sorti della libertà di un intero popolo. Fu infatti così per la "battaglia di Novara" del luglio 1922, che può essere...
Routledge, 2021. — 164 p. Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne’s conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and the presence of the Franks in the Italian Peninsula. The different contexts and periods in which these writers composed their works allows readers to focus on various...
Routledge, 2020. — 174 p. Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphery of the Byzantine Empire, Venice acquired complete independence and emerged as the major power in the Adriatic area. It also avoided absorption by neighbouring rulers, prevented serious destruction by...
Routledge, 2022. — 200 p. This volume examines the Italian peninsula in the early Middle Ages by focusing on research fields such as ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past. Particular attention is devoted to the way some authors were influenced by their own 'present' in their reconstruction of the past. The political and cultural fragmentation of Italy during the early...
Brepols Publishers, 2014. — 372 p. — (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 41). This prosopographical study provides information about each Venetian living in the early Middle Ages, from the invasion of the Lombards in 569 - an action that forced part of the North-East Italy's population to seek refuge in the islands of the Venetian lagoon - to the rule of Duke Petrus Ursoylus II...
Pisa University Press, 2018. — 179 p. The ninth century represents a pivotal period for early medieval narrative sources. Despite the absence of great authors comparable to Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon, who had been capable of developing far-reaching works, historical writing in this period fl ourished remarkably. The renewed attraction to this genre, only...
Firenze University Press, 2015. — 274 p. Questo studio si discosta dall'approccio tradizionale alla storia di Genova nel medioevo, vincolato alla definizione dello ianuensis mercator. Intende invece mostrare aspetti della vita degli artigiani, e dunque correggere un orientamento che ha eccessivamente privilegiato uno specifico (e pur cruciale) settore della società cittadina....
Viella, 2022. — 389 p. Questo volume ricostruisce l’alternarsi delle diverse istituzioni politiche che hanno interessato i territori delle Venezie, dall’antichità fino ai giorni nostri. Resta così definito uno spazio macroregionale dai confini certo mutevoli, di quelle Venetiae che papa Gregorio Magno riconobbe già alla fine del VI secolo come un ambito omogeneo e che si...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 371 p. This book is an investigative study of Christian and Islamic relations in the kingdom of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It has three objectives. First, it establishes how and why the Norman rulers of Sicily, all of whom were Christians, incorporated Muslim soldiers, farmers, scholars, and bureaucrats into the formation of...