Umberto I of Italy

July 29, 1901 in Paterson, N.J. Anarchists of the city gather to meet to celebrate the anniversary of the assassination of King Humbert. “They threw Bresci in prison for what he did when he should have been honored.” The animosity and hatred that these individuals continued to face a year later is still as extreme as it has been from the day it occurred. “A year ago Bresci killed Humbert. The Government called him one of the worst, if not the worst, criminals in history… I wish every country had a…

I am at the Museo del Novecento, in Milan, Italy, learning about Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. This bronze sculpture was created in 1913 during the Cubism and Futurism periods. Though the trip was costly, I decided to go anyway to learn more about this extraordinary piece. The work portrays a runner in full speed; its legs facing forward, display the speed and power of the runner. The cost of traveling to the city, roundtrip, reached a little over $1,400 of airfare,…

In Umberto Eco’s Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt, Eco contemplates on what fascism is. He offers a list of 14 “typical” features to recognize fascism, a political system Italians got to name. He refers to these features as “Ur-Fascism” or “Eternal Fascism.” Eco makes clear that these points are unique to fascism and that they “cannot be organized into a system” as “many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism” (Eco,…

the world and many chefs focus on pizza to make it very unique. Pizza has been around for many years that some historians say it dates back to 600 B.C. When did it actually start? In 1889 King Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited Italy and were tired of their French diet. They asked for a variety of pizzas, Queen Margherita loved the pizza called pizza mozzarella which was later changed pizza Margherita. By 1901 the first pizza documented in the Americas was from New York. By the end of…

In this article, Umberto Rossi examines Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and Radio Free Albemuth and questions their classification as dystopian literature. According to Rossi, a great deal of Dick’s writing can be categorised as “dystopian”, since they describe “other societies that are worse than ours”, and cites that the most probable depictions of Dick’s dystopian imagination are those mentioned in the title. However, he argues that even they are not examples of definitive “dystopias”.…

establishment of The Kingdom of Italy on March 4th 1861 is called ‘’the Risorgimento’’. ‘’The Risorgimento was an ideological and literary movement that helped to arouse the national consciousness of the Italian people, and it led to a series of political events that freed the Italian states from foreign domination and united them politically.’’ (Risorgimento | Italian history | Britannica.com. 2015) The Risorgimento had two main stages; the first – idealistic, revolutionary approach in which…

Italy Ciao! Benevento! Italy is a wonderful country that has influenced the world. Their cuisine, fashion, and arts have affected the world. From their many different fabrics used in their designs to the types of art they influenced Italy has effected the world in one way or another. First, Italy is known for their world- renowned fashion. Italian fashion has influenced many countries and cultures. Italy is known for the fabrics used in their designs. The types of fabrics…

moral conditions of post-war Italy, representing changes in the Italian mind and conditions of daily life, including the issues of poverty, oppression, injustice, and desperation. In this essay, I am going to talk about this movement, its rich history, the impact it had on cinema, some significant work and the things from this movement which have inspired me as a filmmaker. The neorealist movement started in Italy towards…

For this writing workshop, I will use three critical approaches to discuss the film, The Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948). Of the six approaches, I chose the “National Cinemas”, “Auteur”, and “Ideology” approaches. The “National Cinemas” approach to analyzing film takes into account the culture and national characteristics that influence how a narrative is filmed. To understand and fully appreciate a film, one must understand the historical and cultural conditions that surround it. The writer…

it they might die. This is why before the 1530s pizza mostly was topped with different cheeses and oils. Tomatoes did not start to be consumed until peasants began eating them in Naples. The peasants in Naples were starving because of lack and food, and when they could not take it any longer they decided to take the risk and eat the supposed deadly fruit. The peasants began adding it into many of their foods. It took a while for the rest of the society to be on board with the idea that tomatoes…