Teresa Fava Thomas

The Allied Bombing of Central Italy (eBook, PDF)

The Restoration of the Nile Mosaic and Sanctuary of Fortuna at Palestrina

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the results of the Second World War Allied bombing campaign on Palestrina and Rome, Italy, and the long-term impact of the war on the mountainside town and on the Barberini family's art collection including the Nile Mosaic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000955569
• Artikelnr.: 68483294

Autorenporträt

Professor Teresa Fava Thomas, Ph.D. teaches at Fitchburg State University (Massachusetts). Her research interest is modern Italy. She has published: The Reluctant Migrants: Migration from the Italian Veneto, and American Arabists, as well as "Italian Diaspora in a Massachusetts Mill Town: Migration between Palestrina, Italy and Southbridge, Massachusetts" (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Nile Mosaic and the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia 2. Fascism, Romanità, and the Barberini: Struggle for Control of the Nile Mosaic 3. Fascism Comes to Palestrina: War on the Ground 4. The Italian Origins of Airpower Theory 5. The Reality of Bombing Palestrina 6. Monuments Men on the Road to Rome: Deane Keller and Fred Hartt 7. The Saint in the Rubble: to Rebuild or Restore Palestrina? 8. The Return Flight of the Nile Mosaic to the Sanctuary of Fortuna 9. Epilogue