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Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by George Macaulay Trevelyan
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Guiseppe Garabaldi, hero of the Italian Risorgimento, is one of history’s greatest, most charismatic leaders.
This is the final volume of British historian GM Trevelyan’s epic trilogy, covering his life and career. The first two books covered Garibaldi’s rise as a national figure in the Italian states, and how he navigated the web of European powers who sought to retain control of their territories. This final instalment shows Garibaldi at last achieving his dream of a united Italy, by way of compromise with the powerful republican Count Cavour.
George Macaulay Trevelyan was the most famous historian of his day, credited with inventing a form of history authorship that was accessible to the common reader. He clarifies the mosaic of political, social and cultural influence which made up pre-Risorgimento Italy, and draws a clear picture of the personalities and strategies of the major players involved – the Italian politicians Guiseppe Mazzini and Count Cavour, Italian King Victor Emmanuel II and Napoleon III of France. Trevelyan was a great champion of the Italian Risorgimento and gives his native England much credit as the only European power to back the cause. Such is the verve and eloquence of his prose that all readers are sure to be convinced. The book concludes with an account of the hero Garibaldi’s death in 1882, aged nearly seventy-five, and an analysis of his exceptional personality and achievements.
The Garibaldi Trilogy is GM Trevelyan’s great work, and this concluding volume is essential reading for any student of Italian, and European, history.
'Very few of the books which are classified as historical novels are half as exciting’ – Manchester Guardian
‘The whole character of the campaign is illustrated for us by Mr Trevelyan’s power of making even the lesser actors in it seem alive and real, and by vivid descriptions of the scenes in which the story is laid, painted by one who has himself followed with observant eyes the tracks of Garibaldi’s advance. History thus written will appeal to the general reader as well as to the historian’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘Trevelyan’s great work was his Garibaldi Trilogy, which established his reputation as the outstanding literary historian of his generation. It depicted Garibaldi as a Carlylean hero - poet, patriot, and man of action – whose inspired leadership created the Italian nation. For Trevelyan, Garibaldi was the champion of freedom, progress, and tolerance, who vanquished the despotism, reaction, and obscurantism of the Austrian empire and the Neapolitan monarchy. The books were also notable for their vivid evocation of landscape, for their innovative use of documentary and oral sources, and for their spirited accounts of battles and military campaigns’ – historian David Cannadine, from his GM Trevelyan: A Life in History
‘What is perhaps most frequently forgotten, or ignored, is the skill of his literary craftsmanship. Trevelyan was a born writer and a natural storyteller; and this, among historians, is a rare gift’ – historian JH Plumb
George Macaulay Trevelyan was born in England in 1876, into an aristocratic British family. He spent his life writing and at various times held posts at the University of Cambridge. In retirement, he became Chancellor of Durham University. He published numerous volumes of history, biography, essays and memoir. He died in 1962, one of the greats of history scholarship.
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Currently Free on Amazon Kindle (I always thought he was a biscuit )
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Guiseppe Garabaldi, hero of the Italian Risorgimento, is one of history’s greatest, most charismatic leaders.
This is the final volume of British historian GM Trevelyan’s epic trilogy, covering his life and career. The first two books covered Garibaldi’s rise as a national figure in the Italian states, and how he navigated the web of European powers who sought to retain control of their territories. This final instalment shows Garibaldi at last achieving his dream of a united Italy, by way of compromise with the powerful republican Count Cavour.
George Macaulay Trevelyan was the most famous historian of his day, credited with inventing a form of history authorship that was accessible to the common reader. He clarifies the mosaic of political, social and cultural influence which made up pre-Risorgimento Italy, and draws a clear picture of the personalities and strategies of the major players involved – the Italian politicians Guiseppe Mazzini and Count Cavour, Italian King Victor Emmanuel II and Napoleon III of France. Trevelyan was a great champion of the Italian Risorgimento and gives his native England much credit as the only European power to back the cause. Such is the verve and eloquence of his prose that all readers are sure to be convinced. The book concludes with an account of the hero Garibaldi’s death in 1882, aged nearly seventy-five, and an analysis of his exceptional personality and achievements.
The Garibaldi Trilogy is GM Trevelyan’s great work, and this concluding volume is essential reading for any student of Italian, and European, history.
'Very few of the books which are classified as historical novels are half as exciting’ – Manchester Guardian
‘The whole character of the campaign is illustrated for us by Mr Trevelyan’s power of making even the lesser actors in it seem alive and real, and by vivid descriptions of the scenes in which the story is laid, painted by one who has himself followed with observant eyes the tracks of Garibaldi’s advance. History thus written will appeal to the general reader as well as to the historian’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘Trevelyan’s great work was his Garibaldi Trilogy, which established his reputation as the outstanding literary historian of his generation. It depicted Garibaldi as a Carlylean hero - poet, patriot, and man of action – whose inspired leadership created the Italian nation. For Trevelyan, Garibaldi was the champion of freedom, progress, and tolerance, who vanquished the despotism, reaction, and obscurantism of the Austrian empire and the Neapolitan monarchy. The books were also notable for their vivid evocation of landscape, for their innovative use of documentary and oral sources, and for their spirited accounts of battles and military campaigns’ – historian David Cannadine, from his GM Trevelyan: A Life in History
‘What is perhaps most frequently forgotten, or ignored, is the skill of his literary craftsmanship. Trevelyan was a born writer and a natural storyteller; and this, among historians, is a rare gift’ – historian JH Plumb
George Macaulay Trevelyan was born in England in 1876, into an aristocratic British family. He spent his life writing and at various times held posts at the University of Cambridge. In retirement, he became Chancellor of Durham University. He published numerous volumes of history, biography, essays and memoir. He died in 1962, one of the greats of history scholarship.
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- ASIN: B09MWK4Z8Q
- Publisher: Lume Books (1 Dec. 2021)
- Language: English
- File size: 3537 KB
- Simultaneous device usage: Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Screen Reader: Supported
- Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
- X-Ray: Not Enabled
- Word Wise: Enabled
- Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
- Print length: 399 pages
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sorted byBook best read with a cup of tea and some Garibaldi biscuits. (edited)
Shame the first two parts of this trilogy are 3 quid apiece (edited)