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The Body Of Il Duce
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Author : Sergio Luzzatto
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2014-10-21
The Body Of Il Duce written by Sergio Luzzatto and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with History categories.
A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a Milan square, as reviled in death as he was adored in life. With Italy's defeat in World War II, the cult of Benito Mussolini's physical self was brought to its grotesque denouement by a frenzied, jeering crowd of thousands-one eerily similar to the cheering throngs that had once roared their approval beneath Il Duce's balcony. In this groundbreaking work, Sergio Luzzatto traces the fortunes of the Fascist dictator's body: from his charisma, virility, and magnetic domination of Fascist parades, to his humiliating execution, the ugly display of his remains, and beyond. Buried, exhumed, stolen, and hidden for ten years, Il Duce's corpse was finally laid to rest, a shrine for fanatical followers. Through this pursuit, Luzzatto shows how in a totalitarian state the body of the ruler comes to incarnate the nation. And from the indignities visited on Mussolini's corpse, Luzzatto crafts a subtle social and intellectual history of a country struggling to become a republic and free itself from the thrall of Fascism. Elegantly written and stunningly conceived, alive with never-before-published letters, diaries, and reports, The Body of Il Duce cuts a new and compelling path through twentieth-century history.
Padre Pio
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Author : Sergio Luzzatto
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2010-11-23
Padre Pio written by Sergio Luzzatto and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first historical appraisal of the astonishing life and times of a controversial twentieth-century saint Padre Pio is one of the world's most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. His tomb is the most visited Catholic shrine anywhere, drawing more devotees than Lourdes. His miraculous feats included the ability to fly and to be present in two places at once; an apparition of Padre Pio in midair prevented Allied warplanes from dropping bombs on his hometown. Most notable of all were his stigmata, which provoke heated controversy to this day. Were they truly God-given? A psychosomatic response to extreme devotion? Or, perhaps, the self-inflicted wounds of a charlatan? Now acclaimed historian Sergio Luzzatto offers a pioneering investigation of this remarkable man and his followers. Neither a worshipful hagiography nor a sensationalist exposé, Padre Pio is a nuanced examination of the persistence of mysticism in contemporary society and a striking analysis of the links between Catholicism and twentieth-century politics. Granted unprecedented access to the Vatican archives, Luzzatto has also unearthed a letter from Padre Pio himself in which the monk asks for a secret delivery of carbolic acid—a discovery which helps explain why two successive popes regarded Padre Pio as a fraud, until pressure from Pio-worshipping pilgrims forced the Vatican to change its views. A profoundly original tale of wounds and wonder, salvation and swindle, Padre Pio explores what it really means to be a saint in our time.
Primo Levi S Resistance
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Author : Sergio Luzzatto
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2016-01-05
Primo Levi S Resistance written by Sergio Luzzatto and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with History categories.
A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his life No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian Resistance, he was a fighter, participating in the first attempts to launch guerrilla warfare against occupying Nazi forces. Those three months have been largely overlooked by Levi's biographers; indeed, they went strikingly unmentioned by Levi himself. For the rest of his life he barely acknowledged that autumn in the Alps. But an obscure passage in Levi's The Periodic Table hints that his deportation to Auschwitz was linked directly to an incident from that time: "an ugly secret" that had made him give up the struggle, "extinguishing all will to resist, indeed to live." What did Levi mean by those dramatic lines? Using extensive archival research, Sergio Luzzatto's groundbreaking Primo Levi's Resistance reconstructs the events of 1943 in vivid detail. Just days before Levi was captured, Luzzatto shows, his group summarily executed two teenagers who had sought to join the partisans, deciding the boys were reckless and couldn't be trusted. The brutal episode has been shrouded in silence, but its repercussions would shape Levi's life. Combining investigative flair with profound empathy, Primo Levi's Resistance offers startling insight into the origins of the moral complexity that runs through the work of Primo Levi himself.
Sergio Luzzatto Primo Levi S Resistance Rebels And Collaborators In Occupied Italy
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Sergio Luzzatto Primo Levi S Resistance Rebels And Collaborators In Occupied Italy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The Shock Of America
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Author : David Ellwood
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-07-19
The Shock Of America written by David Ellwood and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with History categories.
The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken up. But nobody could be indifferent for long. Inspiration, provocation, myth, menace, model: all these categories and many more have been deployed to try to cope with the Americans. Attitudes and stereotypes have emerged, intellectual resources have been mobilised, positions and policies developed; all trying to explain and deal with the kind of radiant modernity America built over the course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines political, economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American mass culture has provided the United States with a uniquely effective link between power and influence over time. The book is structured in three parts; a separation based on the proposition that America's influence as an unavoidable force for or against innovation was visible most conspicuously after Europe's three greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the Great War, World War II, and the Cold War. It concludes with the emotional upsurge in Europe which greeted the arrival of Obama on the world scene, suggesting that in spite of all the disappointments and frictions of the years, the US still retained its privileged place as a source of inspiration for the future across the Western world.
Moshe S Children
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Author : Sergio Luzzatto
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2023-06
Moshe S Children written by Sergio Luzzatto and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Moshe's Children presents the inspiring story of Moshe Zeiri, a Jewish carpenter responsible for rescuing hundreds of Jewish refugee children who had survived the Final Solution. During the liberation of Italy, Zeiri, a volunteer in the British Army in Italy, assumed responsibility for and vowed to help around seven hundred Polish, Hungarian, Russian, and Romanian children. Although these orphans of the Shoah had been deprived of a family, a home, and a language and were irreparably robbed of their past, they were able to rebuild their lives through Zeiri's efforts as he founded the largest Jewish orphanage in postwar Europe in Selvino, Italy, where he began to rehabilitate the orphans and to teach them how to become citizens of the new nation of Israel. Moshe's Children also explores Zeiri's own story from birth in a shtetl to his upbringing and Zionist education, his journey to the Land of Israel, and his work there before the war. With narrative verve and scholarly acumen, Sergio Luzzatto brilliantly tells the gripping stories of these orphans of the Holocaust and the good man who helped point them to a real future"--
Revolution And The Meanings Of Freedom In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Isser Woloch
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1996
Revolution And The Meanings Of Freedom In The Nineteenth Century written by Isser Woloch and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both inside and outside of revolutionary situations in the nineteenth century, as each author explores and interprets the development of nineteenth-century political culture in a particular national context. The common focus is the struggle in various countries to define, advance, or delimit freedom after the French Revolution. The introductory chapter evokes the problematic relationships between reform and revolution and introduces themes that appear in subsequent chapters, though each chapter is a free-standing interpretive essay. Among the issues addressed are the growth of the public sphere and associational movements; battles over constitutionalism, parliamentary institutions, and the franchise; the role of the state in inhibiting or expanding citizenship and the rule of law; the resort to violence by parties of order or parties of change; and the intrusion of new social questions or ethnic conflicts into the political arena.
The Communist
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Author : Guido Morselli
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2017-09-19
The Communist written by Guido Morselli and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Fiction categories.
A unique political coming of age story, now in English for the first time. An NYRB Classics Original Walter Ferranini has been born and bred a man of the left. His father was a worker and an anarchist; Walter himself is a Communist. In the 1930s, he left Mussolini’s Italy to fight Franco in Spain. After Franco’s victory, he left Spain for exile in the United States. With the end of the war, he returned to Italy to work as a labor organizer and to build a new revolutionary order. Now, in the late 1950s, Walter is a deputy in the Italian parliament. He is not happy about it. Parliamentary proceedings are too boring for words: the Communist Party seems to be filling up with ward heelers, timeservers, and profiteers. For Walter, the political has always taken precedence over the personal, but now there seems to be no refuge for him anywhere. The puritanical party disapproves of his relationship with Nuccia, a tender, quizzical, deeply intelligent editor who is separated but not divorced, while Walter is worried about his health, haunted by his past, and increasingly troubled by knotty questions of both theory and practice. Walter is, always has been, and always will be a Communist, he has no doubt about that, and yet something has changed. Communism no longer explains the life he is living, the future he hoped for, or, perhaps most troubling of all, the life he has led.
El Cuerpo Del Duce Un Ensayo Sobre El Desenlace Del Fascismo
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Author : Luzzatto, Sergio
language : es
Publisher: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Release Date : 2020-02-13
El Cuerpo Del Duce Un Ensayo Sobre El Desenlace Del Fascismo written by Luzzatto, Sergio and has been published by Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
En una entrevista Jung retrató a Mussolini como «el hombre de la fuerza física», con él «se tiene la agradable sensación de estar frente a un ser humano, mientras con Hitler se siente miedo». Seguramente, junto con Berlusconi, el duce es el líder político más corporal del siglo XX italiano. El consenso del que llegó a gozar se basó en su físico y en el dominio del espacio. Sergio Luzzatto sigue la pista de ese carisma a través de una visión panóptica del fascismo y del antifascismo cultural y político, pre y postbélico, incluyendo la gran literatura y la literatura de consumo, hasta completar una apasionante radiografía de las representaciones del dictador en el imaginario colectivo. Cuando la pasión se convirtió en odio, Mussolini fue vejado y colgado ya muerto en la plaza pública, en una «inolvidable, pero no memorable» orgía de violencia que precedió al rastro folletinesco dejado por su cadáver. En 1957, más de diez años después de su fusilamiento, por esas cosas que tiene la política, pudo por fin descansar en Predappio, su localidad natal.
Death Of The Father
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Author : John Borneman
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2004
Death Of The Father written by John Borneman and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Authority categories.
'Death of the Father' is a comparative examination of the crises in symbolic identification and national traumas that have resulted from the defeat and/or implosion of regimes in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Communist Eastern Europe.