Edition: 2011
Pages: 514
Series: BUL
ISBN: 9788842093756

The Places of Memory. People and Dates in Unified Italy

Mario Isnenghi (a cura di)

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Our identity as Italians is certainly not founded on anagraphic data, and even less so on political, economic or social homegeneity. Moments, features, fragments of collective experience exist however which have brought together generations from different geographical and social origins. There are books which all Italians know (Pinocchio for example) or songs (Fratelli d'Italia as well as 'O surdato innamorato). All Italians have travelled at least once in a Fiat 500, and have an idea of what happened at Piazzale Loreto. This book, written by some of the best Italian historians, is a journey through these places of memory, in search of the reasons and facts which have created this memory.

The author

Mario Isnenghi

Mario Isnenghi taught at the Universities of Padua, Turin and Venice. He is President of the Venetian Institute for the History of the Resistance and of Contemporary Society, co-editor of Belfagor and editor of Venetica. His works, which have been reprinted on several occasions, include: The Myth of the Great War from Martinetti to Malaparte (1970); The Italians’ Wars (1989); Italy in the Piazza (1994); The Great War 1914-1918 (with G. Rochat, 2000); Garibaldi was Injured (2007). For UTET he edited the series Italians at War. Conflicts, identity, memories from the Risorgimento to today (2008-2009). For Laterza he edited three volumes of the seriesThe Places of Memory (People and Dates in a United Italy, 20102; Symbols and Myths of a United Italy, 20103; Places and Events of a United Italy, 20102) and is the author of From Resistance to Desistence. Italy of the “Ponte” (1945-1947) (2007) and 1915. Five Ways of Going to War in Twentieth-Century Italy (with other authors, 20112).

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