Scholars believe that there were three social classes in ancient Etruria. After the death of Charlemagne (814), the new empire soon disintegrated under his weak successors. On 24 December 1925, he passed a law that declared he was responsible to the king alone, making him the sole person able to determine Parliament's agenda. Similar to the Parthenon, The Etruscan Temples are built with influences from Greece. Born in Sardinia and southern Corsica, the Nuraghe civilization lasted from the early Bronze Age (18th century BC) to the 2nd century CE, when the islands were already Romanized. Further south, in Campania, a region where inhumation was the general practice, Proto-villanovan cremation burials have been identified at Capua, at the "princely tombs" of Pontecagnano near Salerno (finds conserved in the Museum of Agro Picentino) and at Sala Consilina. [102], The First World War (1914–1918) was an unexpected development that forced the decision whether to honor the alliance with Germany and Austria. There are three theories about the Etruscans origin: 1. The pope at the time, Pius IX, feared that giving up power in the region could mean the persecution of Italian Catholics.[88]. The agitations also extended to the agricultural areas of the Padan plain and were accompanied by peasant strikes, rural unrests and guerilla conflicts between left-wing and right-wing militias. Here occurred the Veronese Easters, an act of rebellion against French oppression, that tied down Napoleon for about a week. Extinct. The pervasive influence of mass media and consumerism on society has often been fiercely criticized by intellectuals like Pier Paolo Pasolini and film directors like Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola, that stigmatized selfishness and immorality that characterized miracle's years. While helping Italy develop strategically, he continued trasformismo and was authoritarian, once suggesting the use of martial law to ban opposition parties. Partly because of this, the Papacy had relocated to Avignon in France. The Church especially endorsed foreign policies such as support for the anti-Communist side in the Spanish Civil War, and support for the conquest of Ethiopia. Despite being authoritarian, Crispi put through liberal policies such as the Public Health Act of 1888 and establishing tribunals for redress against abuses by the government. "Political History in Italy,". ", Donald Sassoon, "Tangentopoli or the democratization of corruption: Considerations on the end of Italy's first republic. These provinces were classified as imperial provinces. Etruscans had a unique system of slaves, something that was not found in either ancient Greece or Rome. Crispi worked to build Italy as a great world power through increased military expenditures, advocation of expansionism, and trying to win Germany's favor even by joining the Triple Alliance which included both Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1882 which remained officially intact until 1915. In the 14th century, Northern Italy and upper-central Italy were divided into a number of warring city-states, the most powerful being Milan, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Ferrara, Mantua, Verona and Venice. La biblioteca di Repubblica, 2004. pp.349, Michael Broers, "Revolution as Vendetta: Patriotism in Piedmont, 1794–1821. The boom had also a huge impact on Italian society and culture. Some 650,000 Italian soldiers died and 950,000 were wounded, while the economy required large-scale Allied funding to survive. [126] Mussolini was repulsed by the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreement where Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to partition the Second Polish Republic into German and Soviet zones for an impending invasion. Lepidus was forced to retire in 36 BCE after betraying Octavian in Sicily. On 4 June 1944, the German occupation of Rome came to an end as the Allies advanced. However, Spain attempted again to retake territories in Italy and to claim the French throne in the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720), but was again defeated. By 1943, Italy was losing on every front. The Congress of Vienna (1814) restored the situation of the late 18th century, which was however quickly overturned by the incipient movement of Italian unification. [57], Thanks to their favorable position between East and West, Italian cities such as Venice became international trading and banking hubs and intellectual crossroads. The sixth century BCE was the apex of Etruscan power in Italy. It was held by the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Rome in the West and even the Lombards failed to consolidate it, though the centre of the south was theirs from Zotto's conquest in the final quarter of the 6th century. Livy[4] arranges them in six male-female pairs: Jupiter-Juno, Neptune-Minerva, Mars-Venus, Apollo-Diana, Vulcan-Vesta and Mercury-Ceres. [160][161] With more than 35,000 confirmed victims, Italy was one of the countries with the highest total number of deaths in the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. Effectively, in spite of Italy having given birth to some great explorers such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci and Giovanni da Verrazzano, the discovery of the New World undermined the importance of Venice and other Italian ports as commercial hubs by shifting Europe's center of gravity westward towards the Atlantic. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics.[68][69]. The new society, whose motto was "God and the People," sought the unification of Italy. His government, in loss of popularity, was anyway sacked by the end of support from centrist MPs led by Clemente Mastella. The Fascist regime held negative relations with Yugoslavia, as it continued to claim Dalmatia. Revolution Latium in the age of P. Valerius Publicola. The Dorians had invaded the Minoan … This led the Etruscans to ally themselves with the Carthaginians, whose interests also collided with the Greeks. Velleius Paterculus , Roman History , 2.108 The gradual inclusion of greater numbers of non-citizen troops into the military was taken a further step by the creation under Hadrian of a new type of force in addition to the legions and … Herodotus (c. 430 BC) said for example that the Etruscans came from Lydia, in Asia Minor, as the result of a famine around 1,200 B.C, establishing themselves over the native inhabitants of the region (Histories 1.94), whereas Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 30 B.C.) The Marshall Plan's long-term legacy was to help modernize Italy's economy. Three of the Dii Consentes formed the Capitoline Triad: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. During all the 1930s, Italy strongly pursued a policy of naval rearmament; by 1940 the Regia Marina was the fourth largest navy in the world. His kingdom was one of the most powerful in Italy: its capital had some 35,000 inhabitants, its territory was some 800 square kilometers, and its zone of influence stretched … During the fifth century and Eighth century BCE, The Etruscan Temples and The Parthenon were built and valued by their cultures for many spiritual and cultural reasons. He spent fourteen years there, taking part in several wars, and returned to Italy in 1848. In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Italy was denied the execution of the wartime secret Treaty of London (1915) which it had concorded with the Triple Entente. Mussolini later supported German claims on Sudetenland, a province of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by Germans, at the Munich Conference. They carried out urban riots, as in Rome and Bologna in 1977. Under Augustus's rule, Roman literature grew steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Soldiers paid for their own equipment and fought for their individual city-state to protect its and their own interests either to defend their territory or expand it, for control of trade routes on land and sea, and to acquire the resources they deemed necessary. In Northern Italy, industrialisation and modernisation began in the last part of the 19th century. In 1805, after the French victory over the Third Coalition and the Peace of Pressburg, Napoleon recovered Veneto and Dalmatia, annexing them to the Italian Republic and renaming it the Kingdom of Italy. The defensive tactic of scorched earth only slightly delayed the invaders, and made the recovery much longer and more painful.[72]. Roger II was the first King of Sicily and had succeeded in uniting all the Norman conquests in Southern Italy into one kingdom with a strong centralized government. [99] The investigation which started in 1877 and was released eight years later, showed that agriculture was not improving, that landowners were swallowing up revenue from their lands and contributing almost nothing to the development of the land. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king Umberto II, was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a Constitutional Referendum to decide whether Italy should remain a monarchy or become a republic. Individual cities had in the past formed alliances to good effect, as seen in the defeat of a Phocaean fleet by a joint Cerveterian and Carthaginian force in 540 BCE, but the military weakness of the Etruscans was all too evident in the wave of attacks from Syracuse in the first quarter of the 4th century BCE when Etruscan coastal sites were sacked and their lucrative … The Berlusconi government was succeeded by a technical government headed by Prime Minister Lamberto Dini, which left office in early 1996. In 1925, Italy forced Albania to become a de facto protectorate. [5](p232), Scholarly evaluation of this account depends on the hypothesis that the Etruscans originally immigrated to Italy from Anatolia. Generally speaking, Proto-Villanovan settlements were centered in the northern-central part of the peninsula. "[119], Lee identifies three major themes in Mussolini's foreign-policy. A new government was formed by Democrats of the Left leader and former communist Massimo D'Alema, but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in regional elections, D'Alema resigned. They founded city-states in northern Italy, and to the south, their influence expanded down into Latium and beyond. The Italian Renaissance peaked in the late 15th century as foreign invasions plunged the region into turmoil. He successfully bet on serving the more dynamic foreign markets from modern plants built with the help of Marshall Plan funds. [77] By one estimate, while in 1500 the GDP of Italy was 106% of the French GDP, by 1700 it was only 75% of it.[78]. In the 1970s Italy saw an unexpected escalation of political violence. In exchange Prussia would allow Italy to annex Austrian-controlled Venice. In the 1950s and 1960s the country enjoyed prolonged economic boom, which was accompanied by a dramatic rise in the standard of living of ordinary Italians. Italy took the initiative in entering the war in spring 1915, despite strong popular and elite sentiment in favor of neutrality. [38] Caesar's assassination caused political and social turmoil in Rome; without the dictator's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague, Mark Antony. In addition, France turned the Netherlands into the Batavian Republic, and Switzerland into the Helvetic Republic. 1. At Fiat the workforce grew from 4,000 to 40,000. [65][66][67], In the early 16th century, Baldassare Castiglione with The Book of the Courtier laid out his vision of the ideal gentleman and lady, while Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince, laid down the foundation of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. In 480 BCE, Etruria's ally Carthage was defeated by a coalition of Magna Graecia cities led by Syracuse. One of the most influential revolutionary groups was the Carbonari (charcoal-burners), a secret organization formed in southern Italy early in the 19th century. In the three Punic Wars, Carthage was eventually destroyed and Rome gained control over Hispania, Sicily and North Africa. The revolutionaries, though, failed to court popular support and fell to Austrian troops of the Holy Alliance. Italian Renaissance painting exercised a dominant influence on subsequent European painting (see Western painting) for centuries afterwards, with artists such as Giotto di Bondone, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian. Etruscans were a monogamous society that emphasized pairing. In face of the threat of a French hegemony over much of Europe, a Grand Alliance between Austria, England, the Dutch Republic and other minor powers (within which the Duchy of Savoy) was signed in The Hague. Berlusconi won the general election in 2008, with the People of Freedom party (fusion of his previous Forza Italia party and of Fini's National Alliance) against Walter Veltroni of the Democratic Party. The sixth century BCE was the apex of Etruscan power in Italy. National Etruscan Museum. [130] In July 1943, the Allies invaded Sicily in an effort to knock Italy out of the war and establish a foothold in Europe. Periods. In Italy, the Congress restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments, either directly ruled or strongly influenced by the prevailing European powers, particularly Austria. [37], In 53 BCE, the Triumvirate disintegrated at Crassus' death. King Emmanuel agreed to the alliance and the Third Italian War of Independence began. This city would later become the ruling capital of different Indian kingdoms for about a thousand years. The Renaissance was so called because it was a "rebirth" not only of economy and urbanization, but also of arts and science. The Roman legions, which had reached an unprecedented number (around 50) because of the civil wars, were reduced to 28. The one major obstacle to Italian unity remained Rome. This appreciative judgment concerning Etruscan religion might appear surprising in that the Etruscan religion seems to be simply a rather ordinary polytheism with gods like those in the Greek or Roman pantheon. TECHNOLOGY & COMMERCE By the 9th century BC, Etruscans had mastered mining and the working of bronze and iron. Mussolini elicited emotional responses unique in modern Italian history, and kept his popularity despite the military reverses after 1940. The refusal of the Allies to grant these promised territories caused widespread indignation among Italian nationalists, while poet and adventurer Gabriele D'Annunzio led an expedition to occupy ethnic Italian Fiume, assigned to Yugoslavia. In 1916, Italy declared war on Germany, which provided significant aid to the Austrians. His contemporary Hellanicus thought the Etruscans originally were Pelasgians, the legendary nation that lived in Greece before the arrival of the Greeks.note[Quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquites 1.28.3.] "[133] James Sadkovich gives the most charitable interpretation of Italian failures, blaming inferior equipment, overextension, and inter-service rivalries. Here their interests collided with those of the Greeks, especially in the 6th century BCE, when Phoceans of Italy founded colonies along the coast of France, Catalonia and Corsica. [75] The plague of 1656 killed up to 43% of the population of the Kingdom of Naples. Ferdinand abolished the constitution and began systematically persecuting known revolutionaries. In 1876, Minghetti lost power and was replaced by the Democrat Agostino Depretis, who began a period of political dominance in the 1880s, but continued attempts to appease the opposition to hold power. Belgium and Piedmont became integral parts of France.[79]. As no dominant powers emerged as they did in other parts of Europe, the oligarchic city-state became the prevalent form of government. In 1923, Mussolini's coalition passed the electoral Acerbo Law, which assigned two thirds of the seats to the party that achieved at least 25% of the vote. This was the time when the several different civilizations of mainland and island Greece, Anatolia, and North Africa coexisted, the arts and costume of each influencing the others. The kingdom also had established important alliances which helped it improve the possibility of Italian unification, such as Britain and France in the Crimean War. Porta Marzia. The Italian kingdoms thus fell, and Italy's Restoration period began, with many pre-Napoleonic sovereigns returned to their thrones. [146] Milan, Florence and Venice, as well as several other Italian city-states, played a crucial innovative role in financial development, devising the main instruments and practices of banking and the emergence of new forms of social and economic organization.[57]. Herodotus mentions a group of twelve gods in Egypt, but this cannot be confirmed in any Egyptian sources. "[136] Writing about the fighting at the First Battle of El Alamein, he stated: "The Italians were willing, unselfish and good comrades in the frontline. Mussolini was captured on 27 April 1945, by communist Italian partisans near the Swiss border as he tried to escape Italy. Augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by Caesar, and the month of August is named after him. [26] The consuls had to work with the senate, which was initially an advisory council of the ranking nobility, or patricians, but grew in size and power. People condemned the South for being "backwards" and barbaric, when in truth, compared to Northern Italy, "where there was backwardness, the lag, never excessive, was always more or less compensated by other elements". Many of the new Hellenic cities became very rich and powerful, like Neapolis (Νεάπολις, Naples, "New City"), Syracuse, Acragas, and Sybaris (Σύβαρις). [141] In 1957, Italy was a founding member of the European Economic Community, which later transformed into the European Union (EU). Frederick Artz emphasizes the benefits the Italians gained from the French Revolution: The Risorgimento was the political and social process that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into the single nation of Italy. The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, including the Etruscans. The seventy years of Jewish–Roman wars in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century were exceptional in their duration and violence. Eventually, after years of inconclusive fighting, with the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559) France renounced all its claims in Italy thus inaugurating a long Habsburg hegemony over the Peninsula. Some small towns in the 6th century BCE have disappeared during this time, ostensibly consumed by greater, more powerful neighbors. The Piedmont revolt started in Alessandria, where troops adopted the green, white, and red tricolore of the Cisalpine Republic. For now, all is well in Etruria, but nothing stays the same forever, even for the pleasure-loving Etruscans. But if the Fifth century is somewhat less than glorious for the beginnings of democracy, the arts were another story. [157][158] The measures, despite being widely approved by public opinion,[159] were also described as the largest suppression of constitutional rights in the history of the republic. Donald Detwiler notes that "Italy's entrance into the war showed very early that her military strength was only a hollow shell. This secured Italy's naval access to Spanish ports and increased Italian influence in the Mediterranean. In 2001, the centre-right formed the government and Silvio Berlusconi was able to regain power and keep it for a complete five-year mandate, becoming the longest government in post-war Italy. 600– 480 BCE. Historian R.J.B. Napoleon conquered most of Italy in the name of the French Revolution in 1797–99. This led to the loss of their north provinces. On land, decades of fighting saw Florence, Milan and Venice emerge as the dominant players, and these three powers finally set aside their differences and agreed to the Peace of Lodi in 1454, which saw relative calm brought to the region for the first time in centuries. Red Brigades and many other groups decided for armed attacks as a revolutionary strategy. The Carbonari condemned Napoleon III to death for failing to unite Italy, and the group almost succeeded in assassinating him in 1858. The site of Rome had a ford where the Tiber could be crossed. Herodotus claimed that they came from Lydia in XIII century BC (Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Tacitus). (pp144–186) Etruscan. note, .] The fervor for war represented a bitterly hostile reaction against politics as usual, and the failures, frustrations, and stupidities of the ruling class.[106][107]. All the Hittite Twelve are male, with no individualizing features. The plague of 1630 that ravaged northern Italy, notably Milan and Venice, claimed possibly one million lives, or about 25% of the population. [104] The Triple Alliance meant little either to Italians or Austrians – Vienna had declared war on Serbia without consulting Rome. 5-23, 5-23A, 5-24, and 5 … Mirrors, known to the Etruscans as malena or malstria, were first produced in quantity from the end of the 6th century BCE right through to the 2nd century BCE.They were locally made in such Etruscan towns as Vulci, Tarquinia, Cerveteri and Chiusi, as attested by the large number of finds in those places. In World War I, Italy joined the Entente with France and Britain, despite having been a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, and gave a fundamental contribution to the victory of the conflict as one of the principal allied powers. Italy's military failures against France, Greece, Yugoslavia and in the African Theatres of war shook Italy's new prestige mightily. Mussolini and Adolf Hitler first met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisis. Inspired by the principles of the French Revolution, its members were mainly drawn from the middle class and intellectuals. The traditional chronology, as codified by Varro, allots 243 years for their reigns, an average of almost 35 years, which, since the work of Barthold Georg Niebuhr, has been generally discounted by modern scholarship. Roman armies occupied Spain in the early 2nd century BCE but encountered stiff resistance from that time down to the age of Augustus. [13] The presence of the Homo neanderthalensis has been demonstrated in archaeological findings near Rome and Verona dating to c. 50,000 years ago (late Pleistocene). Thenceforth, the Fasci di Combattimento (forerunner of the National Fascist Party, 1921) of Benito Mussolini successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest for order and normalization of the middle class. They were still hunters, but had domesticated animals; they were fairly skilful metallurgists, casting bronze in moulds of stone and clay, and they were also agriculturists, cultivating beans, the vine, wheat and flax. [73] In addition, Spain's involvement in the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), financed in part by taxes on its Italian possessions, heavily drained Italian commerce and agriculture; so, as Spain declined, it dragged its Italian domains down with it, spreading conflicts and revolts (such as the Neapolitan 1647 tax-related "Revolt of Masaniello"). In 1820, Spaniards successfully revolted over disputes about their Constitution, which influenced the development of a similar movement in Italy. ... 496 BC: Battle of Lake Regillus: A legendary early Roman victory, won over either the Etruscans or the Latins. Villa Giulia At the time Italy had about 2,500 military aircraft in service. Afterwards, the bodies of Mussolini, his mistress, and about fifteen other Fascists were taken to Milan where they were displayed to the public. It is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945 some 60,000 Allied and 50,000 German soldiers died in Italy. According to the founding myth of Rome, the city was founded on 21 April 753 BCE by twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who descended from the Trojan prince Aeneas[23] and who were grandsons of the Latin King, Numitor of Alba Longa. The cabinet has been the youngest government of Italy up to date, with an average age of 47. Italian unification was completed, and the capital was moved from Florence to Rome.[94]. The dukedoms of Parma and Modena re-formed, and the Papal States and the Kingdom of Naples returned to the Bourbons. The subsequent participation in World War II with the Axis powers, together with Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, ended in military defeat, Mussolini's arrest and escape (aided by the German dictator Adolf Hitler), and an Italian Civil War between the Italian Resistance (aided by the Kingdom, now a co-belligerent of the Allies) and a nazifascist puppet state known as "the Italian Social Republic". In 1947, under American pressure, the communists were expelled from the government. [163], Fascist Italy, World War II and Civil War (1922 to 1946), Langley, Andrew and Souza, de Philip, "The Roman Times", Candle Wick Press, Massachusetts, Holger Berwinkel, "Legnano, Battle of (1176)." [50] The Jewish people never recovered until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.[51]. Mussolini was a World War I veteran, who had worked for the Socialist newspapers before the war but then broke off due to his pro-war stance and established his new Nationalist organization, Fasci di Combattimento. Jewish ghettos were abolished. The Etruscans were a people who lived in Etruria in Italy during the Bronze and Iron Ages. This area had been occupied as early as the 15th century BCE. As Napoleon's reign began to fail, other national monarchs he had installed tried to keep their thrones by feeding those nationalistic sentiments, setting the stage for the revolutions to come. Mirrors, known to the Etruscans as malena or malstria, were first produced in quantity from the end of the 6th century BCE right through to the 2nd century BCE. Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Crassus, his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, Pompey. This coincided with the rise of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa and the Middle East. Facing a new Lombard offensive, the Papacy appealed to the Franks for aid.[52]. Francesco Crispi (1818–1901) was Prime Minister for a total of six years, from 1887 until 1891 and again from 1893 until 1896. On 15 May the French general then entered Milan, where he was welcomed as a liberator. The Germans brought Mussolini to northern Italy where he set up a Fascist puppet state, the Italian Social Republic. Lecture 2 Outline – The Roman World The Time of the Kings § Early Rome ruled by kings Early Influences Etruscans … Their effective use is still debated: some scholars considered them as fortresses, others as temples. These events led to the loss of the Northern Etruscan provinces. Apart from divination, a subject this article will return to, Greek and Latin writers give few details, and Etruscan literature that could provide this information has not survived. Thousands of miles of railways and highways were completed in record times to connect the main urban areas, while dams and power plants were built all over Italy, often without regard for geological and environmental conditions. The Socialist party (PSI), led by Bettino Craxi, became more and more critical of the communists and of the Soviet Union; Craxi himself pushed in favour of US president Ronald Reagan's positioning of Pershing II missiles in Italy. A late fourth-century BCE writer, Anticleides, agre… [35], Towards the end of the 2nd century BCE, a huge migration of Germanic tribes took place, led by the Cimbri and the Teutones. [125] This was important to the alliance as both regimes mutually had claims on France, Germany on German-populated Alsace-Lorraine and Italy on the mixed Italian and French populated Nice and Corsica. [112] The Treaty of St. Germain awarded the victorious Italian nation the Southern half of the County of Tyrol, Trieste, Istria, and the city of Zadar. 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