Contents

List of Illustrations

1 Diverse Italies

Fractured Geography

Italian Peoples

Linguistic Italy

2 Imperial Italies

Barbarian and Byzantine Italy

Italia Germanica

3 Cities and Powers

Communal Dreams

Communal Realities

Republican Italy

4 Adriatic Venice

5 Disputed Italies

Enlightened Italy

Napoleonic Italy

Italy and the Restoration

6 Revolutionary Italies

Insurgent Italy

7 The Making of Italy

Lombardy and the Duchies 1859

Sicily and Naples 1860

Venice (1866) and Rome (1870)

8 Legendary Italy

The Generation of Giants

The Wisest Statesman

The Noblest Roman

Father of the Nation

Some Generals and an Admiral

The Risorgimento without Heroes

9 Making Italians

Piedmont Comes to Naples

Sicily Goes Downhill

Rome and Parliament

Beautiful Legends

The Quest for Glory

The Bear of Busseto

10 Nationalist Italy

Bellicose Italy

11 Fascist Italy

Italia Imperiale

12 Cold War Italy

Christian Democrats

13 Modern Italy

Centrifugal Italy

Resilient Italy

List of Books Used and Cited in the Text