Italy the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War By R. J. B. Bosworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2005 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 0521019893 | DJVU | 3 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2005 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 0521019893 | DJVU | 3 MB
In the heart of Rome beside the Capitol, confronting the Piazza Venezia, stands the Victor Emmanuel monument. In Rome, which until 1945 was so often accorded the adjectives 'eternal' or 'imperial', the monumentissimo (as sardonic socialists labelled it) is the most public, most theatrical and most excessive architectural celebration of post-Risorgimento Italian patriotism, nationalism and perhaps imperialism.