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"Originally published in Australia by Black, Inc. First published in North America in revised form by The Experiment, LLC."
"That People in Togas" : Ancient Italy and the Roman Republic -- "That People in Togas : The Crisis of the Roman Republic -- "Masters of all in Existence" : The Roman Empire -- "From a Kingdom of Gold to One of Iron and Rust" : Decline and Fall of the Empire -- Goths, Longbeards, Franks, Saracens, and Normans : Italy Under the "Barbarians" -- "All the Cities of Italy" : The Middle Ages -- Italy's Age of Gold : The Renaissance -- "Go, Thought, on Golden Wings" : Italy in the Illuminismo -- "Here We Make Italy" : The Risorgimento -- Dov'è La Vittoria? : The Kingdom of Italy -- The "Putrid Corpse" of Liberty : Italy Under Fascism -- Andrà Tutto Bene : Italy Since the War
"From a foremost author of historic Italy, this is a concise, star-studded retelling of the nation's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence"--