THE HISTORY OF ITALY
(Storia d'Italia – directed by Giuseppe Galasso)

The Storia d’Italia is the result of rigorous research which has supplied original contributions to historians’ debates and offers a comprehensive account of the varoius stages and features of our national history.
The Storia d’Italia, as explained in Giuseppe Galasso’s introductory volume, examines Italian history from a socio-political viewpoint. It also undertakes a full historiographical reconstruction of the real components of the various "Italian histories": the pre-unification States, the regions, the cities.
Such a reconstruction highlights the characteristic regional fragmentation even after unification, and at the same time, acknowledges the undeniably common civic and cultural attitudes before unification.
Each volume in the Storia d’Italia series forms part of an overall project, but at the same time represents an individual work pertaining to a historical period and a region.
The series is clear in both style and design, and constitutes a critical presentation of events that interest not only history lovers, but anyone who wishes to clarify the question of "Italy" from a historiographical point of view.
The volumes contain a total of approximately 12,000 richly illustrated pages.