Book Six covers the Roman constitution, and his thoughts on government in general, the Roman constitution, and other constitutions in comparison was THE reason I read
This will be the last chapter in my review/notes of the book. Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Mussolini declared support for Hitler, but knew Italy
What book about Sicily would be complete without mentioning the Mafia, right? Mostly because of the blunders of the ruling class in Turin, Sicilians thought
Risorgimento is the Italian word for Unification. It literally means ‘resurgence’, but it is the word that was historically used for this period of Italian
Just because I haven’t mentioned it since the first post, these chapter recaps are my personal notes taken from reading the book by John Julius
Meanwhile, on Sicily, Maria Carolina was waiting to get back to Naples. She had made it clear that she considered Sicily nothing more than a
The “Joseph” and “Joachim” the chapter title refers to are Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother, and Joachim Murat, his brother in law. In 1801 the French
The title of the chapter refers to Captain Nelson, the great English Admiral, William Hamilton, the English statesman, and of course, everybody’s favorite rampaging French
The Treaty of Utrecht was really a series of treaties by which the European powers sought to regulate their mutual relations. The one that concerned
The second half of the 1400’s saw two cataclysmic events: The fall of Constantinople to the Turks and the expulsion of the Moors from Spain.