Italy - Mediaeval And Modern - A History
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ITALY MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN by E. M. JAMISON. Originally published in 1917. PREFACE: IT Is no wonder that Italian history should be invested, In the eyes of Englishmen, with a perennial fascination, considering how profoundly we have been influenced at critical stages of our national development by the Italian genius. The catalogue of our obligations is too lengthy to be recited in a preface. A few examples must suffice. It is to an Italian, Gregory the Great, that we owe our Christian faith to Benedict of Nursia and to Francis o Assisi we are indebted for interpretations of that faith which have survived the Middle Ages and our own Reformation. It was on Italian soil that English humanists made their first acquaintance with the wisdom of antiquity and the spirit of free thought. Machiavelli first Inspired us to reason about the nature and the purpose of the modern State Mazzini taught us to respect the Idea of nationality. Dante and Petrarch, Ariosto and Tasso, have been accepted models in more than one great age of English poetry. Nowhere have the great Italian artists, from Giotto to Raphael, been better loved or more closely studied than in England. Our sense of these obligations is reflected in our histori cal literature, which Is full of admirable monographs on particular epochs of Italian history, and on the leaders of Italian religious and political movements. Yet it Is strangely difficult to find any general sketch of Italian vi Preface history, from the barbarian invasions to the present day, which can be recommended as an introduction to more detailed studies. It was to supply this need that the present volume was planned and written. The authors have taken a broad view of their subject. They have devoted considerable space to political and ecclesias tical history because Italy, long befoie she attained to national unity, was the scene of many fruitful expcii ments in political and ecclesiastical organization. But they have also called attention to th
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