Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy
Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy

Author: Anthony L. Cardoza

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-08

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521522298

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A full account of the Italian nobility in the period after national unification.

The Nation of the Risorgimento
The Nation of the Risorgimento

Author: Alberto Banti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-25

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1000057453

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This book is a translation of La Nazione del Risorgimento, one of the most important and influential works on modern Italian history published in recent years. It analyses the aspects of the ideas of nationhood and patriotism that impassioned and energized the Italian Risorgimento movement during the first half of the nineteenth century. Employing an innovative interdisciplinary approach that examines the cultural production and consumption of the period, the author has challenged the orthodoxies of post-1945 Italian historiography. He explores the developing themes that gave strength to the idea of the Italian ‘nation’, and in the process persuasively explains why so many young men and women were willing to lay down their lives for the ‘patria’ and its independence.

Verdi, Opera, Women
Verdi, Opera, Women

Author: Susan Rutherford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1107043824

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Prologue : Verdi and his audience -- War -- Prayer -- Romance -- Sexuality -- Marriage -- Death -- Laughter.

The Man Verdi
The Man Verdi

Author: Frank Walker

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0226871320

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In this classic biography of composer Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Walker reveals Verdi the man through his connections with the individuals who knew him best. “Walker focuses on some of the more significant people in Verdi’s life and carefully scrutinizes his relationships with them. His wife, Giuseppina Strepponi; his student and amanuensis, Emanuele Muzio; the conductor who first fully understood Verdi’s mature art, Angelo Mariani; the great prima donna, Teresa Stolz; the incomparable librettist and friend of his old age, Arrigo Boito—each passes before our eyes in Walker’s meticulous reconstruction. As we learn more about them, we learn more about Verdi. We see him through the eyes of his closest friends, we watch his daily activities, his daily thoughts, his habits, his warmth, his domestic tyranny. The myth dissolves and a human being stands before us.”—Philip Gossett, from the introduction