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EDITALIA Polygraphic Institute and State Mint
Description: 15 volumes (in 19 volumes) bound in full cloth, gold engravings, with illustrated jacket, in folio format (30.5 x 21 cm); about 900
over 2000 color and b/w illustrations.
Extraordinary work, an editorial masterpiece resulting from over fifteen years of studies and research by the greatest contemporary experts and historians.
The Work starts from the description of the geological morphology and the ancient physical environment of the region and develops along the lines of a story which, from prehistory and protohistory, over the course of three millennia, has made the South an authentic crossroads of civilizations Mediterranean; and of this he illustrates the individual provinces, the political and administrative institutions, the post-unification period, phenomena such as banditry, emigration, the birth of a new bourgeoisie, the agricultural blockade up to the strategy of extraordinary intervention; and also the urban planning of cities, the influence of ecclesiastical structures, the study of popular traditions, literature, minor arts and crafts
Volume I. (two volumes): The ancient Mezzogiorno. Volume II (two volumes): Medioev; Volume III: Early Middle Ages; Volume IV (two volumes): The
Kingdom from the Angevins to the Bourbons; Volume V: Naples Capital and the Provinces; Volume VI: "The Provinces of the South"; Volume VII: The Provinces; Volume VIII: Aspects and problems of the Middle Ages and the Modern Age; Volume VIII - IX - X - XI -; Volume XII: Southern Italy in United Italy; Volume XIII: From Fascism to the Republic; Volume XIV: Contemporary culture; Volume XV (two volumes): Regions and Provinces in the Unification of Italy. 67167591
