King The Shortest History of Italy

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-913083-57-1
Verlag: Old Street Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 13, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Shortest Histories

'King's supreme ability is to imagine himself into the past. The scope of his knowledge is staggering' JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES From Michelangelo to Mussolini, Nero to Meloni, Galileo to Garibaldi, here is the sparkling story of the world's most influential peninsula. The calendar, the university, the piano; the Vespa, the pistol and the pizzeria... It is easy to assume that inventions like these could only come from somewhere sure of its place in the world. Yet these pages reveal a land rife with uncertainty even as its influence spread. From the rise of the Roman Republic to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, from the glories of Renaissance Florence to the long struggle for unification, from Europe's first operas to the world's first ghettos, Ross King nimbly charts the checkered course of Italian history. In the last hundred years, film, fashion and Fiat - once bigger than Volkswagen - have emerged from the horrors of fascism and world war. The Shortest History of Italy is a majestic sweep across three millennia of history that not only shaped Europe but the wider world.

Ross King is a world-renowned expert on the Italian Renaissance. He is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed books, including The Bookseller of Florence, Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Leonardo and the Last Supper. He lives just outside Oxford.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Ross

Leseproben

ARCHAIC PERIOD c.1184 BCE Legendary arrival of Aeneas in Italy following the Trojan War 753 BCE Legendary founding of Rome 509 BCE Founding of the Roman Republic ROMAN REPUBLIC 264–41 BCE First Punic War 218 BCE Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy 146 BCE Roman destruction of Carthage and Corinth 91–87 BCE Social War 60 BCE First Triumvirate founded 44 BCE Assassination of Julius Caesar 30 BCE Deaths of Antony and Cleopatra 27 BCE Octavian proclaimed ‘Augustus’ by the Senate ROMAN EMPIRE 14 CE Death of Augustus; Tiberius becomes Emperor 64 CE Great Fire in Rome 79 CE Eruption of Vesuvius 80 CE Completion of the Colosseum 117 The Empire reaches its greatest expanse under Trajan 180 Death of Marcus Aurelius, last of the ‘Five Good Emperors’ 235–284 ‘Crisis of the Third Century’ 293 Diocletian establishes the Tetrarchy 312 Battle of the Milvian Bridge 410 Sack of Rome by the Visigoths 452 Huns under Attila invade Italy 476 End of the Roman Empire in the West LATE ANTIQUITY 493 Beginning of the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths (until 553) 568 Lombard invasion of Italy 800 Charlemagne proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor MIDDLE AGES 831 Emirate of Sicily established (until 1061) 1061 Beginning of Norman conquest of Sicily 1176 Lombard League defeats Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano 1209 St Francis of Assisi gains papal approval for his order 1302 Dante exiled from Florence; he begins The Divine Comedy 1309 Pope Clement V moves the papal court to Avignon (until 1376) 1378 Beginning of the Western Schism (until 1417) RENAISSANCE 1417 Donatello completes his sculpture of St George in Florence 1452 Birth of Leonardo da Vinci 1454 Peace of Lodi 1492 Birth of Vittoria Colonna 1494 Invasion of Italy by King Charles VIII of France 1512 Michelangelo completes his fresco on the vault of the Sistine Chapel 1527 Sack of Rome by the troops of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V 1545 The Council of Trent opens (until 1563) 1593 Birth of Artemisia Gentileschi 1632 Galileo publishes Dialogo Sopra i Due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo; a year later he is forced to abjure his ‘errors’ ILLUMINISMO 1734 Beginning of Bourbon rule in Naples 1764 Cesare Beccaria publishes On Crimes and Punishments 1796 French forces led by Napoleon invade Italy 1797 End of the Venetian Republic 1805 Napoleon crowns himself King of Italy in Milan RISORGIMENTO 1848 First Italian War of Independence 1859 Second Italian War of Independence 1860 Expedition of The Thousand under Giuseppe Garibaldi...