Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family

The Amendolas in the Age of Totalitarianisms

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvR.J.B. Bosworth

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What did it mean to live with fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in modern Italy? And what should we learn from the experiences of a martyred liberal democrat father and his communist son? Through the prism of a single, exceptional family, the Amendolas, R.J.B. Bosworth reveals the heart of twentieth-century Italian politics. Giovanni and Giorgio Amendola, father and son, were both highly capable and dedicated Anti-Fascists. Each failed to make it to the top of the Italian political pyramid but nevertheless played a major part in Italy's history. Both also had rich but contrasting private lives. Each married a foreign and accomplished woman: Giovanni, a woman from a distinguished German-Russian intellectual family; Giorgio, a Parisian working class girl, who, to him, embodied Revolution. This vivid and engaging biographical study explores the highs and lows of a family that was at the centre of Italian politics over several generations. Tracing the complex relationship between Anti-Fascist politics and the private lives of individuals and of the family, Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family offers a profound portrait of a century of Italian life.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-06
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt406 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor276
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009280211

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R.J.B. Bosworth is one of the world's leading historians of modern Italy. He is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Oxford and the author or editor of thirty-one books and many chapters and articles. He published his first book with Cambridge, Italy the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War (1979), and was co-editor, with Joseph Maiolo, of the second volume of The Cambridge History of the Second World War (2015). His numerous prize-winning publications include the definitive biography of Mussolini in English.

List of figures; Preface; Introduction; Dramatis personae; 1. Political violence and the Amendolas, father and son; 2. The rise of Giovanni Amendola, 1882–1919: Man of liberal democratic ambition; 3. Giovanni Amendola: a condottiere of pure anti-fascism?; 4. Nelia Pavlova, Giovanni's last lover, convinced admirer and liberal democrat partisan; 5. Giorgio Amendola 1907–43: True love and totalitarianisms (Italian-style); 6. Giorgio Amendola and a national road to socialism and the end of history; Conclusion; Afterword; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

'Good histories illuminate past epochs; the best histories do so by bringing individual lives into high relief. This wonderful book - part record of Fascist brutality, part remarkable history of resistance, and part love story - weaves the fate of Giovanni Amendola and his son Giorgio into the larger narrative of Fascist Italy and its aftermath.' Roberta Pergher, author of Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943