Fact and Ideology in the Reporting of News About Italy from 1600 to the Unification

This volume focuses on the reporting of news about Italy from 1600 until the nation’s unification in 1861 and the conquest of Papal Rome in 1870. The volume provides ground-breaking research regarding not just what news stories were reported about Italy in the European and American press but, as important, the news language and ideological bias adopted in the reporting of such news. The three editorsâ€"internationally esteemed in their respective fields of historical news discourse, Italian studies, and news transmission in the Renaissance â€"have compiled an original and exciting volume which will enrich interdisciplinary research into Italy’s history and international standing, the language of the historical international press, and the strategies adopted even in the past to manipulate news events for ideological purposes.