Opere

Opere
Author: Ugo Foscolo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1958
Genre:
ISBN:

Epistolario

Epistolario
Author: Ugo Foscolo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1994
Genre: Authors, Italian
ISBN:

Italian Literary Classics

Italian Literary Classics
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Guide to currently available editions of Italian literary classics.

Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese

Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese
Author: Vilma DeGasperin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199673810

Combines theme and genre analysis in a study of the Italian author, from her first literary writings in the 1930s to her novels in the 1990s.

The Risorgimento Revisited

The Risorgimento Revisited
Author: S. Patriarca
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2011-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230362753

Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.

Garibaldi

Garibaldi
Author: Lucy Riall
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2008-10-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300176511

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 attractive, he was worshiped in life and became a cult figure after his death in 1882. Lucy Riall shows that the emerging cult of Garibaldi was initially conceived by revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the status quo, that it was also the result of a collaborative effort involving writers, artists, actors, and publishers, and that it became genuinely and enduringly popular among a broad public. The book demonstrates that Garibaldi played an integral part in fashioning and promoting himself as a new kind of “charismatic” political hero. It analyzes the way the Garibaldi myth has been harnessed both to legitimize and to challenge national political structures. And it identifies elements of Garibaldi’s political style appropriated by political leaders around the world, including Mussolini and Che Guevara.