Out of Italy Audiobook Libro.fm

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From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650

In the fifteenth century even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become several centuries later a nation Italy exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean Its cultural economic and political dominance is utterly astonishing and unique in world history Viewing the Italy the many Italies of that time through the lens of today allows us to gather a fragmented multifaceted and seemingly contradictory history into a single unifying narrative that speaks to our current reality as much as it does to a specific historical period This is what the acclaimed French historian Fernand Braudel achieves here He brings to life the two extraordinary centuries that span the Renaissance Mannerism and the Baroque and analyzes the complex interaction between art science politics and commerce during Italys extraordinary cultural flowering