Author: Drake, Richard
Title: Byzantium for Rome : The Politics of Nostalgia in Umbertian Italy, 1878-1900
Description: Chapel Hill, Univ.of North Carolina Press, 1980. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 23x13cm, xxvii,308 pp. Page-edges spotted. Minor rubbing. Good. ¶ Contents: The Politics of Nostalgia in Post-Risogimento Italy: Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907); The Making of a Publisher in Umbertian Italy: Angelo Sommaruga (1857- 1941); The Rise of the Sommaruga Publishing House: "La Cronaca Bizantina and the Bizantini, 1881-1882"; The Sommaruga Publishing House at Its Zenith, 1882-1884; Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) and the " Bizantina" Schism, 1883-1884; Politics and Culture in the Sommaruga Publishing Empire: Pietro Sbarbaro (1838-1893); "Guidicatemi!": The Fall of the Sommaruga Publishing House,1885; After the Fall: The Politics of Nostalgia and D'Annunzianism, 1885-1897; The Politics of Nostalgia in Crisis and the Genesis of Nationalism: Enrico Corradini (1865-1931).

Keywords: Italian Political History, Modern Italy, Nationalism, National Movement, Politics, Post-Risorgimento, Giosue Carducci, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Angelo Sommaruga