City and Nation in the Italian Unification: The National Festivals of Dante Alighieri (Italian and Italian American Studies)

by Mahnaz Yousefzadeh (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $60.49

  This study of the first national festival of modern Italy historically reconstructs the event, using a mass of un-catalogued and unpublished documents left by the organizers, which positions the Centenary as a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian national identity emerged.