David Gilmour (2) (1952–)
Autor de The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
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David Gilmour's wonderfully readable exploration or Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled with the great figures of the Italian past-from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medicis, from Garibaldi and Cavour to the mostrar más controversial politicians of the twentieth century. Gilmour's wise account of the Risorgimento, the pivotal epoch in modern Italian history, debunks the nationalistic myths that surround it, though he paints a sympathetic portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, a beloved hero of the era. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities, and cuisines. Italy's inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. The country's strength and culture still come from its regions rather than from its misconceived, mishandled notion of a unified nation. mostrar menos
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- Nombre legal
- Gilmour, The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1952-11-14
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Educación
- Eton College
University of Oxford (Balliol College) - Ocupaciones
- author
historical writer
biographer - Relaciones
- Gilmour, Ian (father)
- Premios y honores
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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- Obras
- 11
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 1,258
- Popularidad
- #20,397
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 28
- ISBNs
- 156
- Idiomas
- 12
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- 1