City and Nation in the Italian Unification: The National Festivals of Dante Alighieri

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of the first national festival of modern Italy historically reconstructs the event, using a mass of un-catalogued and unpublished documents left by the organizers, which positions the Centenary as a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian national identity emerged.

Author: Mahnaz Yousefzadeh
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/31/2011
Pages: 253
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230108646

About the Author
MAHNAZ YOUSEFZADEH Professor in the Liberal Studies Program of Arts and Sciences at New York University, USA.