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Book Synopsis The Hero of Italy by : Gregory Hanlon
Download or read book The Hero of Italy written by Gregory Hanlon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hero of Italy examines a salient episode in Italy's Thirty Years' War with Spain and France, whereby the young duke Odoardo Farnese of Parma embraced the French alliance, only to experience defeat and occupation after two tumultuous years (1635-1637). Gregory Hanlon stresses the narrative of events unfolding in northern Italy, examining the participation of the little state in these epic European events. The first chapter describes the constitution of Cardinal Richelieu's anti-Habsburg alliance and Odoardo's eagerness to be part of it. A chapter on the Parman professional army, based on an extraordinary collection of company roster-books, sheds light on the identity of over 13,000 individuals, soldier by soldier, the origin and background of their officers, the conditions of their lodgings, and the good state of their equipment. Chapter three follows the first campaign of 1635 alongside French and Savoyard contingents at the failed siege of Valenza, and the logistical difficulties of organizing such large-scale operations. Another chapter examines the financial expedients the duchy adopted to fend off incursions on all its borders in 1636, and how militia contingents on both sides were drawn into the fighting. A final chapter relates the Spanish invasion and occupation which forced duke Odoardo to make a separate peace. The volume includes a detailed assessment of the impact of war on civilians based on parish registers for city and country. The application of the laws of war was largely nullified by widespread starvation, disease and routine sex-selective infanticide. These quantitative analyses, supported by maps and tables, are among the most detailed anywhere in Europe in the era of the Thirty Years' War.
Download or read book Garibaldi written by Lucy Riall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the 19th century. This book examines his life and the making of his cult-like following, assesses its impact, and chronicles its surprising success.
Download or read book Garibaldi written by Lucy Riall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Garibaldi written by Christopher Hibbert and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under the title: Garibaldi and his enemies. Boston, Little, Brown, 1965.
Book Synopsis Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi by : Howard Blackett
Download or read book Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi written by Howard Blackett and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hero's Way written by Tim Parks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando Figes In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy's mountainous spine, toward the refuge of the Venetian Republic. After thirty-two exhausting days of skirmishes and adventures, only 250 survivors reached the Adriatic coast. This hair-raising journey is brought vividly to life by bestselling author Tim Parks, who in the blazing summer of 2019, followed in Garibaldi's footsteps. A fascinating portrait of Italy past and present, The Hero's Way is a celebration of determination, creativity and desperate courage.
Download or read book Garibaldi written by Alfonso Scirocco and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882) brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the Americas as he did in Europe, becoming an international freedom fighter, earning the title of the "hero of two worlds," and making himself perhaps the most famous and beloved man of his century. Alfonso Scirocco's Garibaldi is the most up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive, and convincing biography of Garibaldi yet written. In vivid narrative style and unprecedented detail, and drawing on many new sources that shed fresh light on important events, Scirocco tells the full story of Garibaldi's fascinating public and private life, separating its myth-like reality from the outright myths that have surrounded Garibaldi since his own day. Scirocco tells how Garibaldi devoted his energies to the liberation of Italians and other oppressed peoples. Sentenced to death for his role in an abortive Genoese insurrection in 1834, Garibaldi fled to South America, where he joined two successive fights for independence--Rio Grande do Sul's against Brazil and Uruguay's against Argentina. He returned to Italy in 1848 to again fight for Italian independence, leading seven more campaigns, including the spectacular capture of Sicily. During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln even offered to make him a general in the Union army. Presenting Garibaldi as a complex and even contradictory figure, Scirocco shows us the pacifist who spent much of his life fighting; the nationalist who advocated European unification; the republican who served a king; and the man who, although compared by contemporaries to Aeneas and Odysseus, refused honors and wealth and spent his last years as a farmer.
Book Synopsis The Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi by : Howard Blackett
Download or read book The Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi written by Howard Blackett and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis LIFE OF GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI by : HOWARD. BLACKETT
Download or read book LIFE OF GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI written by HOWARD. BLACKETT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hero of Italy and Other Poems by : Mrs. L. A. Czarnecki
Download or read book The Hero of Italy and Other Poems written by Mrs. L. A. Czarnecki and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Garibaldi, the Italian Hero and Patriot by :
Download or read book The Life and Times of Garibaldi, the Italian Hero and Patriot written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pursuit of Italy by : David Gilmour
Download or read book The Pursuit of Italy written by David Gilmour and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Economist's Books of the Year A provocative, entertaining account of Italy's diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The question is asked and answered in a number of ways in The Pursuit of Italy, an engaging, original consideration of the many histories that contribute to the brilliance—and weakness—of Italy today. David Gilmour's wonderfully readable exploration of Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled by the great figures of the Italian past—from Cicero and Virgil to the controversial politicians of the twentieth century. His wise account of the Risorgimento debunks the nationalistic myths that surround it, though he paints a sympathetic portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, a beloved hero of the era. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities, and cuisines. Italy's inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. Italy's strength and culture still come from its regions rather than from its misconceived, mishandled notion of a unified nation.
Book Synopsis Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by : Giuseppe Garibaldi
Download or read book Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century written by Giuseppe Garibaldi and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century" by Giuseppe Garibaldi. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Immortal Heroes Of The World by : M S Gill
Download or read book Immortal Heroes Of The World written by M S Gill and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Garibaldi, and Italian Unity by : Osborne William Chambers
Download or read book Garibaldi, and Italian Unity written by Osborne William Chambers and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of the Italian Risorgimento, offers a comprehensive account of his life and accomplishments. Written by Osborne William Chambers, a noted scholar of Italian history and culture, it provides insights into one of the most significant figures in modern Italian history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Italy's Liberator by : Frederic Thomas Gammon
Download or read book Italy's Liberator written by Frederic Thomas Gammon and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome Or Death written by Daniel Pick and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1875, General Garibaldi, the legendary military hero of Italian unification, left his island retreat in the Mediterranean for Rome. His battle cry no longer required, he was pursuing a mission that would become an obsession in his old age: to divert the River Tiber from Rome. Through this forgotten episode, Daniel Pick explores Garibaldi's passionate attachment to Rome and to Italy. In the bitter debate that ensued many myths were laid bare, and prevailing medical, social and political anxieties about the future of the state were exposed. The flood-prone Tiber had caused havoc, disease and death throughout history. In the capital, the General sought to replace it with a Parisian-style boulevard that would be a wonder of the modern world. But behind his florid promise to revitalise 'Italy' lay a complex and shadowy history, including a traumatic event felt by Garibaldi as the defining tragedy of his life: the loss of his wife Anita. Despite himself, he became embroiled in the political labyrinth of Rome and a drama of thwarted ambition, grand illusion and disillusionment, whose significance was not lost on Garibaldi's later admirer, Benito Mussolini, another self-styled redeemer of the Eternal City and the fever-ridden marshes of Italy.
