The Shortest History of Italy
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Ross King
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The Shortest History of Italy
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Old Street Publishing
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9781913083571
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Shortest Histories
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Regional- und Ländergeschichte
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'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.
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...
