City and Nation in the Italian Unification

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of the first national festival of modern Italy historically reconstructs the event, using a mass of un-catalogued and unpublished documents left by the organizers, which positions the Centenary as a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian national identity emerged.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: 2011-03-31