BACKGROUND BOOKS

BACKGROUND BOOKS

the Mediterranean and the awesome barrier of the Alps, four-fifths of the territory consists of mountains and hills. Not only the great Alpine arc, sweeping west to east from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, but. . . the Apennines, stretching . . . down the length of Italy. ..set per- manent barriers to the possibilities of cultivation."
So writes Stuart Woolf in A History of Italy, 1700-1860 (Methuen, 1979). Indeed, it was the diversity of Ita- ly's physical and climatic characteristics...

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