Italian 316

Society and Civilization (3)  

Literary, social, and cultural history of the Italian people from the Renaissance to the 20th century: the role of the city-states, the place of art and literature in the national consciousness, the revival of the past, the pervasive presence of humanism, the Church and Italian political unification, ethnic and regional identity, Fascism and the fall of the monarchy, the emergence of Italy as a first-rate industrial power.