Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town

by Lucy Riall

During the momentous events that shook Italy in 1860 as the nation was unified, there was a murderous riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte on the slopes of Mount Etna. Thereafter, Bronte became a symbol - of the limits of the liberal Risorgimento and of the persistence of foreign domination: descendants of Admiral Horatio Nelson had the largest landholding in the town and the British were said to have put pressure on Garibaldi to crush the uprising,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019964649X
• ISBN13: 9780199646494
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"