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Release Year: 2011

ISBN: 9780374283162

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-10

0374283168

ISBN-13

9780374283162

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102780655

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Book Title

Pursuit of Italy : a History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples

Number of Pages

480 Pages

Language

English

Topic

Europe / Italy

Publication Year

2011

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Travel, History

Author

David Gilmour

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Hardcover

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Item Height

1.6 in

Item Weight

26 Oz

Item Length

9.1 in

Item Width

6.5 in

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2011-022110

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Praise For The Pursuit Of Italy "Amazingly compendious . . . The best one-volume history of Italy now available . . . [ The Pursuit of Italy ] has the same tonic, exhilarating impact as the thigh-slapping overture to a Verdi opera." -Jonathan Keates, The Literary Review "[ The Pursuit of Italy has] a freshness and readability often lacking in more laborious histories, an attractiveness reinforced by the quality of the writing, which is versatile and vivid and frequently witty, able to encompass both densely factual material and complicated narrative without loss of clarity or elegance . . . Compelling to read and highly informative . . . Brilliantly accomplished." -Barry Unsworth, The Spectator "Lucid and elegant, clever and provocative . . . Tracing Italy's history from Romulus and Remus to the misdemeanours of Silvio Berlusconi, Gilmour develops his thesis with wit, style, and a great deal of learning." -Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times (London) "[A] well-researched and engaging canter through the peninsula's history." -Peter Popham, The Independent "[Gilmour is] a witty guide with an elegant prose style and a mind delightfully furnished with anecdotes and dictums, sensual impressions and conversations . . . [His] prose smells not of the archive but of a convivial meal eaten beneath a pergola in the Pisan hills." -Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Daily Telegraph "Gilmour's elegantly written book . . . is full of impressive insights . . . A stimulating, up-to-date and reliable guide to modern Italian history." -Tony Barber, Financial Times "In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . The Pursuit of Italy offers an enduring tribute to a various and wonderful people." -Ian Thomson, Evening Standard, [ The Pursuit of Italy has] a freshness and readability often lacking in more laborious histories, an attractiveness reinforced by the quality of the writing, which is versatile and vivid and frequently witty, able to encompass both densely factual material and complicated narrative without loss of clarity or elegance . . . Compelling to read and highly informative . . . Brilliantly accomplished., In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . The Pursuit of Italy offers an enduring tribute to a various and wonderful people., "Amazingly compendious . . . The best one-volume history of Italy now available . . . [ The Pursuit of Italy ] has the same tonic, exhilarating impact as the thigh-slapping overture to a Verdi opera." -Jonathan Keates, The Literary Review "[ The Pursuit of Italy has] a freshness and readability often lacking in more laborious histories, an attractiveness reinforced by the quality of the writing, which is versatile and vivid and frequently witty, able to encompass both densely factual material and complicated narrative without loss of clarity or elegance . . . Compelling to read and highly informative . . . Brilliantly accomplished." -Barry Unsworth, The Spectator "Lucid and elegant, clever and provocative . . . Tracing Italy's history from Romulus and Remus to the misdemeanours of Silvio Berlusconi, Gilmour develops his thesis with wit, style, and a great deal of learning." -Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times (London) "[A] well-researched and engaging canter through the peninsula's history." -Peter Popham, The Independent "[Gilmour is] a witty guide with an elegant prose style and a mind delightfully furnished with anecdotes and dictums, sensual impressions and conversations . . . [His] prose smells not of the archive but of a convivial meal eaten beneath a pergola in the Pisan hills." -Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Daily Telegraph "Gilmour's elegantly written book . . . is full of impressive insights . . . A stimulating, up-to-date and reliable guide to modern Italian history." -Tony Barber, Financial Times "In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . The Pursuit of Italy offers an enduring tribute to a various and wonderful people." -Ian Thomson, Evening Standard, Praise For The Pursuit Of Italy "Amazingly compendious . . . The best one-volume history of Italy now available . . . [ The Pursuit of Italy ] has the same tonic, exhilarating impact as the thigh-slapping overture to a Verdi opera." -Jonathan Keates, The Literary Review "[ The Pursuit of Italy has] a freshness and readability often lacking in more laborious histories, an attractiveness reinforced by the quality of the writing, which is versatile and vivid and frequently witty, able to encompass both densely factual material and complicated narrative without loss of clarity or elegance . . . Compelling to read and highly informative . . . Brilliantly accomplished." -Barry Unsworth, The Spectator "Lucid and elegant, clever and provocative . . . Tracing Italy's history from Romulus and Remus to the misdemeanours of Silvio Berlusconi, Gilmour develops his thesis with wit, style, and a great deal of learning." -Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times (London) "[A] well-researched and engaging canter through the peninsula's history." -Peter Popham, The Independent "[Gilmour is] a witty guide with an elegant prose style and a mind delightfully furnished with anec dotes and dictums, sensual impressions and conversations . . . [His] prose smells not of the archive but of a convivial meal eaten beneath a pergola in the Pisan hills." -Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Daily Telegraph "Gilmour's elegantly written book . . . is full of impressive insights . . . A stimulating, up-to-date and reliable guide to modern Italian history." -Tony Barber, Financial Times "In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . The Pursuit of Italy offers an enduring tribute to a various and wonderful people." -Ian Thomson, Evening Standard, Lucid and elegant, clever and provocative . . . Tracing Italy's history from Romulus and Remus to the misdemeanours of Silvio Berlusconi, Gilmour develops his thesis with wit, style, and a great deal of learning., Gilmour's elegantly written book . . . is full of impressive insights . . . A stimulating, up-to-date and reliable guide to modern Italian history., Amazingly compendious . . . The best one-volume history of Italy now available . . . [ The Pursuit of Italy ] has the same tonic, exhilarating impact as the thigh-slapping overture to a Verdi opera., [Gilmour is] a witty guide with an elegant prose style and a mind delightfully furnished with anecdotes and dictums, sensual impressions and conversations . . . [His] prose smells not of the archive but of a convivial meal eaten beneath a pergola in the Pisan hills.

Dewey Edition

Dewey Decimal

945

Synopsis

One of The Economist 's 2011 Books of the Year Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? These questions are asked and answered in a number of ways in this 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 with the great figures of the Italian past-from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medicis, from Garibaldi and Cavour to the controversial politicians of the twentieth century. Gilmour's wise account of the Risorgimento, the pivotal epoch in modern Italian history, 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. With The Pursuit of Italy , David Gilmour has provided a coherent, persuasive, and entertaining interpretation of the paradoxes of Italian life, past and present., One of "The Economist"'s 2011 Books of the Year Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? These questions are asked and answered in a number of ways in this 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 with the great figures of the Italian past-from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medicis, from Garibaldi and Cavour to the controversial politicians of the twentieth century. Gilmour's wise account of the Risorgimento, the pivotal epoch in modern Italian history, 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.With "The Pursuit of Italy," David Gilmour has provided a coherent, persuasive, and entertaining interpretation of the paradoxes of Italian life, past and present."

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DG467.G55 2011b

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