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Performed Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the purpose of political unification a mistake? These questions are asked and responded to in several ways in this participating, original consideration of the many histories that contribute to the brilliance - and weakness - of Italy today. David Gilmour's exploration of Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled with the fantastic information of the Italian past - from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medicis, from Garibaldi and Cavour to the controversial politicians of the 20th hundred years. Gilmour's wise account of the Risorgimento, the pivotal epoch in modern Italian record, debunks the nationalistic common myths that surround it, though he paints a sympathetic portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, a cherished hero of the era. Gilmour demonstrates the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with the distinc&timid;tive art, civic ethnicities, identities, and cuisines. Italy's inhabitants identified themselves much less Italians but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. Italy's power and culture still come from its regions somewhat than from its misconceived, mishandled notion of an unified nation.

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Publisher	Tantor Audio
Language	English
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DATE	2017-09
Author	David Gilmour

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