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Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture (Italian & Italian American Studies)

By Stephen Gundle , Lucia Rinaldi

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1403983917, 9781403983916, 9780230606913
Open Library ID
OL11642916M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
915 kB (936521 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
256\255
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Contemporary Italian history has been marked by an extraordinary series of murders and political assassinations. The shooting of King Umberto in 1900 by an anarchist, the various attempts on the life of Mussolini, the killing of former prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades in 1978, and the shooting of the student Carlo Giuliani by a policeman during the G8 protests in Genoa in 2001 were all highly controversial events that provoked far-reaching reactions. The contributions to this book explore these and many other Italian true crime and political murder cases. They analyze them in their historical and cultural contexts and explore the films, fiction, theatre and art that they have inspired.

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