Lucy Riall: 4 books

Book cover of Garibaldi

Garibaldi

L'invenzione di un eroe

by Lucy Riall
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 20, 2017

Una biografia egregiamente documentata e scritta con la vivacità tipica della storiografia anglosassone. Lucy Riall mette in evidenza gli episodi che hanno circondato le imprese dell'eroe dove i fatti reali si sono mescolati con un cumulo imponente di invenzioni e leggende. Così avvenne per le sue...
Book cover of Garibaldi
by Lucy Riall
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008

Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success.For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every...
Book cover of Romanzi nel tempo

Romanzi nel tempo

Come la letteratura racconta la storia

by Andrea Graziosi, Lucy Riall, Emilio Gentile
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 9, 2017

Raccontare la storia attraverso i romanzi riserva molte sorprese...Con Guerra e pace, La capanna dello zio Tom, Madame Bovary, Il Gattopardo, Arcipelago Gulag, Tropico del Cancro, Il partigiano Johnny, Se non ora, quando?, Il padrino, nove storici ci fanno viaggiare nel passato in compagnia di grandi testi letterari.
Book cover of Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914
by Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.
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