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"In this imaginatively yet scrupulously researched study, Simpson turns an ephemeral scandal of adultery and murder into a tool with which to reconstruct the intersecting, evolving realms of a national public life which collided in early post-Risorgimento Italy. The so-called 'Fadda Affair' becomes a prism through which are reflected (among other things) trial by jury all'italiana, the emergence of popular scandal-mongering journalism, the myths and social realities of the Italian military, the role - or lack thereof - of women in the public sphere, the rise of the circus as popular entertainment, and the violent clash of North and South. Simpson tells his tale brilliantly and wisely, and in the process gives us a unique new window onto the disconcerting spectacle of Italy, and Italians, in the making." - Albert Russell Ascoli, Terrill Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley
"Supported by meticulous research and insightful analysis of varied contemporary sources, Murder and Media in the New Rome is an informed study of 'the first great media circus' in the new Italian state. Simpson examines the Fadda trial as the stage where participants and audience enacted wider social, cultural, and gender conflicts. This book offers a fascinating study of how numerous interpreters such as painters, novelists, poets, lawyers, and especially the new media protagonists - the newspaper reporters - depicted these conflicts in varying and meaningful ways. Written in an eminently readable prose-style that captures vividly the drama of murder and its aftermath, this book provides an original discussion of a now-forgotten event that gathered mass attention in late nineteenth-century Italy. In doing so, it furnishes a glimpse of a whole period of Italian history that is generally overlooked in the English-speaking world." - Cristina Della Coletta, Professor of Italian, University of Virginia
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Book Title: Murder and Media in the New Rome
Book Subtitle: The Fadda Affair
Authors: Thomas Simpson
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230116535
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10836-3Published: 19 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29115-1Published: 19 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11653-5Published: 12 December 2010
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 264
Topics: Cultural History, Modern History, History of Italy, European History, Social History, Media Studies