Title The Italians before Italy : conflict and competition in the Mediterranean / Kenneth R. Bartlett.

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Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2007]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level	GREAT COURSES CD BOOK 945.05 BARTLETT PT. 1	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level	GREAT COURSES CD BOOK 945.05 BARTLETT PT.2	Check Shelf

Description	12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm).
Playing Time	120000
Series	Great courses
	Great courses (Compact disc)
Note	Twenty-four 30 minute lectures.
Performer	Taught by professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, University of Toronto.
Note	Compact discs.
	In two containers (23 cm.).
Contents	pt. 1. lecture 1. Italy: a geographical expression -- lecture 2. The question of sovereignty -- lecture 3. The crusades and Italian wealth -- lecture 4. Venice: a maritime republic -- lecture 5. The Terraferma empire -- lecture 6. Genoa, la superba -- lecture 7. Bankers and dukes -- lecture 8. Pisa -- lecture 9. Christians vs. Turks in the Mediterranean -- lecture 10. Rome: papal authority -- lecture 11. Papal ambition -- lecture 12. Papal reform.
	pt. 2. lecture 13. Naples: a matter of wills -- lecture 14. Naples and the threat to Italian liberty -- lecture 15. Milan and the Visconti -- lecture 16. The Sforza dynasty -- lecture 17. Mantua and the Gonzaga -- lecture 18. Urbino and the Montefeltro -- lecture 19. Ferrara and the Este family -- lecture 20. Siena and the struggle for liberty -- lecture 21. Florence and the guild republic -- lecture 22. Florence and the Medici -- lecture 23. The Italian mosaic: E pluribus gloria -- lecture 24. Campanilismo: the Italian sense of place.
Summary	This course discusses the political, economic, and social worlds of the Italian city-states in the period of the Middle Ages to the loss of their autonomy in the later 16th century. The course includes some references to the status of certain Italian cities in antiquity and brief mention of their subsequent development from 1559 until the Risorgimento, the movement of Italian national unification in the 19th century. The focus is on the development of the institutions and structures that gave each independent state its essential character. The introductory lectures in the course bring together the common threads of a history shared by the independent states of Italy. Finally, this course argues that the richness of the culture of Italy resulted from its lack of political unity--Compiled from information in the course introduction.
Subject	Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559.
	Italy -- History -- 1268-1492.
	Europe -- History -- 15th century.
	Europe -- History -- 16th century.
	Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
	Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
	Italy. (OCoLC)fst01204565
Chronological Term	1268-1599
Genre/Form	Lecture. (DNLM)D019531
	sound recordings. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300028633
	lectures. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026673
	Sound recordings. (OCoLC)fst01411639
	Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
	Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Audiobooks.
	Sound recordings.
	Lectures.
	Speaches.
Added Author	Teaching Company.
ISBN	1598033476
	9781598033472
Music No.	8232 Teaching Co.

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