A dying man’s mostly finished novel reflecting back on the previous 100 years in Italian government, culture, politics, and ideas. This novel begins with the introduction of an Italian prince in the 1860s looking out over his domain and thinking on the political rebellion of Garibaldi that seeks to overturn the regional principalities and aristocracy in order to unify as a nation state. So the novel then looks at this significant and inevitable change through the small day to day dealings of this prince, his […]