have been like to fight in the Italian Civil War. A standard history textbook does nothing to further my understanding of what fighting in that terrible war within a war would have been like, for while it is filled with numerical facts and data, it does not speak to the realities of fighting in war. War is a collection of the countless motivations and actions of every soldier, nurse, and civilian involved in the conflict. For that reason, to truly understand what it must have been like to fight in the Italian Resistance, one of the least unified entities fighting in the Second World War, it is vital to read individual accounts of the conflict. Reading a singular account…
In the ones of L.F. Taylor, author of The Art of War in Italy, “the foot soldier succeeded to the international position which had been held by the mailed knight.” Given how radical this statement is, it should not be surprising that not all societies were on board with this new kind of thinking. The French still relented their soldiers early on after the Battle of Cerignola. An example of this is during the Siege of Padua in 1509 when a chronicler at the time recorded how the French captains…
Mexican, Greek, Egyptian or even Multicultural history that knowing your values from your own culture and from the culture that you live in. For me, I haven’t experienced any American history. I was born in Greece and I have experienced a lot in Greece about the Greek history. I have learned that Greek History from 800 B.C. – 500 B.C. which in that period was the ancient Greece with her poetry, the advanced art, technology and the most important the Greek political history like the…
Many believe that Italy has not changed much in its history; it is a small country that has been exempt from many modern political affairs. However, a half-century long political and economic debacle known as “Risorgimento,” ‘The Resurgence,’ or simply the Italian Unification was one of the most important events in Italian history. It was successful in uniting the many independently controlled states into one unified kingdom known as Italy, and was influenced by many means including Camillo…
They planned to recapture Nice and Savoy with no thought for the consequences. Cavour panicked, realising the catastrophic consequences of attempting to start a war with France could have. However news from Sicily about a rebellions occurring led to Garibaldi changing course. Garibaldi arrived in Sicily and moved up through the state acquiring more recruits and people joined his growing army. Soon Sicily was in the hands of Garibaldi and entirely under his control. He then headed north, towards…
Italy’s Culture Ciao! This is Italian for “Hello!” The culture of Italy is a of particular interest to me because all of my dad’s side of the family is Italian and has Italian ancestry. My father’s Grandparents were born and raised in Italy, and spoke all Italian. Italy has the most romantic people in the whole word, just before Paris. Some cultural practices that they do in Italy, is that their most popular sport is “football” or soccer. Although my family is a Italian family, we don’t always…
a while for the rest of the society to be on board with the idea that tomatoes were in fact harmless, but once they did Italian cuisine was changed forever (Demetri, p. 1). What most articles have in common is that pizza was truly made famous when King Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited Naples in 1889. The legend has it that after Italy unified in 1861 King Umberto I and Queen Margherita traveled Italy to take an inspection tour of her Italian Kingdom. The story says that the King and Queen…
the control on Italian peninsula, which limited the revolts for unification by Italian. As a result, Risorgimento started to develop. Risorgimento means the gradual process of revival of Italian Nationalism. The early revolts for the unification were continuous failures. Because of monarchies, like Habsburg in Austria, secret communities were formed. However, Austrian militaries had crushed them with…
Italians have been a part of the scene in Philadelphia since colonial times. In 1665 a group of Waldensians (Italian protestants) came to New Sweden (New Castle Delaware) seeking religious asylum. Deleware and Philadelphia were all part of the same New Sweden. When the English took over Philadelphia, it is believed that many from the original group of 150 came to live in Philadelphia. William Penn had visited Italy and as a. Quakers he believed in freedom of religion. Later with the…
Southern Italians, upon receiving political, cultural, and social discrimination and mistreatment in their own home nation sought out a better life in the United States beginning in the early 1860s after Italy 's unification. Spurned by their own government, they came to America hoping that life would turn around for them. Unfortunately, this would prove not to be the case because until the end of the Second World War Southern Italian immigrants would face extreme discrimination by the American…