The Pursuit Of Italy by David Gilmour
A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
A lively cultural and political history that traces Italy’s journey from ancient fragmentation to modern unification, emphasizing the powerful role of geography, regional identities and local institutions in shaping its fate. Moving through Roman legacies, medieval city-states and communes, Renaissance flourishing, foreign domination and the Risorgimento, it offers vivid portraits of regions—Venice, Tuscany, Lombardy, the Mezzogiorno—and of the personalities and forces that alternately divided and bound them. The central argument is that Italy’s distinctive patchwork of languages, economies and loyalties made the creation of a cohesive nation unusually difficult, and that many contemporary Italian tensions are rooted in this long historical mosaic. Written with a blend of scholarly synthesis and travelogue detail, the narrative explains how landscape and history produced both brilliance and persistent regionalism.
- Published
- 2011
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 512
- Original Language
- English
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