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Out of Italy

Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise

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Out of Italy

Von: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
Gesprochen von: Paul Brion
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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, multi-faceted, 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 Italy's extraordinary cultural flowering.

©1994 Flammarion, Paris; translation copyright 1991 by Flammarion (P)2022 Tantor Europa Italien Politik & Regierungen Renaissance
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A piece of old fashioned historiography. Well written and entertaining but based on the pretty nonsensical premise that there are epochs when certain "nations", or rather regions achieve "greatness" by exercising an extraordinary amount of influence over world history. Partly this stems from the word choice of "greatness" but one can't but see a certain normative bias that modern historiography is avoiding. It doesn't make it better that he portraits the quest for greatness as a zero sum game between competing "nations". Furthermore there are quite few clichés and simplifications that make a good story but that modern historiography has rebuked in the meantime.
Nevertheless a well researched piece from an intriguing perspective on a topic that was much more well known by generations of the past than by ours.

Well written but based on a nonsensical premise.

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