Ross King

The Shortest History of Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Old Street Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781913083953
• ISBN-10: 1913083950
• Artikelnr.: 73328579

Autorenporträt

Ross King is the author of The Shortest History of Italy, along with many bestselling books on Italian art and history, including Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Brunelleschi's Dome. He lectures widelyon Renaissance art at museums and is a regular participant in Italian Renaissance seminars at the AspenInstitute including at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Frick Collection, and the National Gallery.

Inhaltsangabe

* "That People in Togas": Ancient Italy and the Roman Republic
* "Let the Die Be Cast": The Crisis of the Roman Republic
* "Masters of All in Existence": The Roman Empire
* "From a Kingdom of Gold to One of Iron and Rust": Decline and Fall of
the Empire
* Goths, Longbeards, Franks, Saracens, and Normans: Italy Under the
"Barbarians"
* "All the Cities of Italy": The Middle Ages
* Italy's Age of Gold: The Renaissance
* "Go, Thought, on Golden Wings": Italy in the Illuminismo
* "Here We Make Italy": The Risorgimento
* "Dov'è La Vittoria?": The Kingdom of Italy
* The "Putrid Corpse" of Liberty: Italy Under Fascism
* "Andrà Tutto Bene": Italy Since the War