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Title

Italy's lies : debunking history's lies so that Italy might become a "Normal Country" / Lorenzo Del Boca ; translation from the Italian by Ilaria Marra Rosiglioni.

Author

Del Boca, Lorenzo

Publication

• New York, NY : Bordighera Press, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

Rosiglioni, Ilaria Marra

Description

x, 226 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

A necessary antidote to the infection of empty patriotism and political mythology of modern Italy. The book documents the extraordinary, endemic and continuing corruption of Italy's ruling class as the primary reason Italy was never, is not, and may never be, a "normal country".

Series Statement

Saggistica ; 15

Uniform Title

• L'Italia bugiarda : smascherare le menzogne della storia per diventare finalmente un paese normale. English
• Saggistica (New York, N.Y.) ; 15.

Alternative Title

• L'Italia bugiarda : smascherare le menzogne della storia per diventare finalmente un paese normale.
• Debunking history's lies so that Italy might become a "Normal Country"

Subject

• Italy > History > 19th century
• Italy > History > 20th century
• Italy > History > 21st century

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• "First appeared in Italian as L'Italia bugiarda : smascherare le menzogne della storia per diventare finalmente un paese normale, Edizioni Piemme, 2013"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 219-226).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Impossible reforms -- 150 years of unified taxes -- Greedy hands and guilty consciences -- Traitors and turncoats -- Justice ... Justice.

ISBN

• 9781599540849
• 1599540843

OCLC

895286040

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library