The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth-century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely treated as a subject of moral theology or literature, it suddenly became extremely widespread. This book...
The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth-century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A...
This book investigates the experiences of second- and third-generation Italians living in South Africa, exploring how nostalgia for Italy influences their sense of identity and belonging. It will be of interest to scholars from across migration studies and the Humanities in general.
This book investigates the experiences of second- and third-generation Italians living in South Africa, exploring how nostalgia for Italy influences t...
