Giuseppe Garibaldi – Institute for the Study of Western Civilization

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) is the fourth man in the quartet of the founders of unified Italy. Garibaldi was the most popular of all the leaders of the Risorgimento. More popular than the King himself. Garibaldi was a man of action; he was a military leader, a hero on a horse, a romantic figure with a romantic story, a fascinating wife who fought at his side.

REQUIRED BOOKS FOR WINTER QUARTER

Giuseppe Di Lampedusa,

The Leopard: A Novel,

Pantheon; Reprint edition (November 6, 2007),

ISBN 0375714790

Christopher Duggan,

A Concise History of Italy,

Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (January 20, 2014),

ISBN 0521747430

On Tuesday nights during this academic year, the Institute will present a thirty-week course on Modern Italy taught by William Fredlund, Ph.D. The study of Modern Italy will begin in the year 1600, and will offer the student the opportunity to discuss the idea of “Modern.” as well as the flowering of Italian culture in seventeenth century Rome. During the Winter Quarter we will study the making of the modern Italian democracy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And then in Spring Quarter we will follow the evolution of the new democratic state of Italy into the twentieth century and the story of the Fascist dictatorship of Mussolini.