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3 days ago · Inspired by the rebellions in the 1820s and 1830s against the outcome of the Congress of Vienna, the unification process was precipitated by the Revolutions of 1848, and reached completion in 1871 after the capture of Rome and its designation as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. [1] [2]
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3 days ago · Italy was the birthplace and centre of the ancient Roman civilisation. Rome was founded as a kingdom in 753 BC and became a republic in 509 BC. The Roman Republic then unified Italy forming a confederation of the Italic peoples and rose to dominate Western Europe, Northern Africa, and the Near East.
3 days ago · Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini were the chief originators of the science of history. Pietro Bembo was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language . In 1690, the Academy of Arcadia was instituted with the goal of "restoring" literature by imitating the simplicity of the ancient shepherds with sonnets ...
May 3, 2024 · Guido Ruggiero’s new social and cultural history of Italy between 1250 and 1575 begins at the end of the world and ends at the beginning of the ‘Great Social Divide’. The world that ended around 1250 was not that of the ‘Second Age of Christ and the New Testament’ expected by ‘semiotically aroused’ (1) spiritual men and women; nor ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Ross King. 4.44. 9 ratings3 reviews. A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy’s past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence―from a foremost author of historic Italy. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.
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Apr 24, 2024 · The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy. A Short History and Some Current Issues. November 2, 2016. Lecture — The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy (Salvatore Settis) Salvatore Settis presented at the Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture on Wednesday, November 2, 2016.
Apr 30, 2024 · Expedition of the Thousand, campaign undertaken in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi that overthrew the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Naples) and permitted the union of southern Italy and Sicily with the north. The expedition was one of the most dramatic events of the Risorgimento (movement for
