SPADOLINI, GIOVANNI
FLORENCE: A THOUSAND YEARS.
Firenze, Le Monnier, 1984. 1st edition. Hard cover/gold spine titles, 24,5cmx17,5cm, Fine condition. Bilingual (en/it) edition. Translated from the Italian by Luisa Conti Camaiora. Sommario: I0. The first nine hundred years. 1). The legend of Florence. 2). The birth of the commune. 3). The rise and fall of the Podestà. 4). The regime of the 'Popolo Vecchio'. 5). Magnates and 'Popolani'. 6). The Florentines, 'Sons of iniquity'. 7). The Guelph decline. 8). The Ciompi in power. 9). The bourgois signory of the Medici. 10). Lorenzo, a 'Pepublican Monarch'. 11). The Savonarolian theocracy. 12). The fall of the Republic. 13). The neo-absolutism of the Grand Duchy. 14). The Tuscan 'State' in the Italian decline. 15). From the Medici to the Lorraines. 16). The season of Enlightenment: from Peter Leopold to the revolution. 17). The first Restoration, between Reformism and Romanticism. 18). 1848 - 1859: the ten decisive years. II). The last hundred years. 1). The day of the plebiscite. 2). 'Finis Etruriae'. 3). The choise of Ricasoli. 4). The 'civilian Garibaldi' of Tuscany. 5). The parties in Florence. 6). Florence capital. 7). The 'moderate' town. 8). Giolittian Florence. 9). The last concervative resistance. 10). The Guelph citadel. 11). The liberal period. 12). Socialist Florence. 13). Fascism, liberation and the post-war period: the Florence in which we live. With chronology, bibliography and index of names. Giovanni Spadolini (1925 - 1994) was a liberal Italian politician, the 45th Prime Minister of Italy, newspaper editor, journalist and a noted historian. 240 b/w plates. VII + 400 pag testo.

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