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Title - The Shortest History of Italy
Author - Ross King
ISBN - 9781913083953
Publisher - Old Street Publishung
Publication Date - May 26th 2025
Format - Paperback
Description - From Michelangelo to Mussolini, Nero to Meloni, Galileo to Garibaldi, here is the sparkling story of the world’s most influential peninsula.
The calendar, the university, the piano; the Vespa, the pistol and the pizzeria… It’s easy to assume that inventions like these could only come from somewhere sure of its place in the world. Yet these pages reveal a land rife with uncertainty even as its influence spread.
From the rise of the Roman Republic to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, from the glories of Renaissance Florence to the long struggle for unification, from Europe’s first operas to the world’s first ghettos, Ross King nimbly charts the checkered course of Italian history. In the last hundred years, film, fashion and Fiat – once bigger than Volkswagen – emerge from the horrors of fascism and world war.The Shortest History of Italy is a majestic sweep across three millennia of history that not only shaped Europe but the wider world.
Page count - 272
Language - English
Cover Art - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shortest-His...