Mussolini easily achieved total power in Italy for more than twenty years with his charisma, “his extensive use of the mass media to construct an image of the leader” , and his manipulation of Italian bureaucracy. As Cardoza points out, without Mussolini’s tactical skills, charisma and ruthlessness it would be difficult to imagine the Fascist coming to power and ruling for so long in Italy. If we want to examine the Mussolini myth then we should go back to his years as a leader of Italian socialism. Among Italian socialists, Mussolini could command attention by fascinating the crowd. He was one of the foremost national leaders, and he acquired great popularity as a journalist and editor of the Socialist Party daily, Avanti!
Germany was actually more divided than Italy. She had more than three hundred petty independent states, and they had no form of common government. Nonetheless, “ the Germans had a common language and shared some memories of unity in medieval times. Secondly,both the French Revolution and Napoleon affected the two countries. Italy was particularly influenced by the career of Napoleon who first rose to fame with his Italian campaign (1796).
Even later in his life, Beccaria continued to gain official recognition and held several nominal political positions in Italy. Cesare Beccaria is one of the most famous criminal justice theorists of all time. The purpose of this paper is to discuss Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishment, with emphasis on Beccaria’s views on capital punishment and many of his views of society in the enlightenment period. During that time there was a lot of injustice in their judicial system such as, the improper used power of judges, using personal connections to get lighter sentences and capital punishment. Throughout the book Beccaria mentions many views that he believed are effective and precise.
Fascism did not rise from one single event; it grew from actions of people and groups over many years. The Unification of Italy through to the post war years of 1919 – 1922 brought constant problems within the economic, social and political levels of society which led to the Fascist regime destroying a political system that had lasted 50 years. Economic, Social and Political problems post WW1 The new state of Italy was to be dominated for the next 50 years by the Liberals. They believed that under the rule of educated, progressive men, such as themselves, Italy would become a “citizenry proud of its nationality and loyal to state. (Robson, 1992)” However, reviewing the economical, social and political issues this was not to be.
They were hit hard by the economic crisis of recent years but have adopted austerity measures to help reduce their national debt. This paper examines the globalization of Italy, the various dimensions of culture, and international business dealings. Major Elements and Dimensions of Culture Communication Verbal. Openly expressed thoughts and feelings are an important aspect of culture and are common to most Italians. During conversations, Italians tend to use hand gestures and close personal contact to express emotions.
These times were particularly apparent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Modernism at this time was a big cultural shock, but also gave people the power to improve their ever changing environment, this was due to the eve of new science and technological advances in western society, due to industrialisation. As far as Photography and industrialisation were concerned or the culmination of the two meant that new materials could be
Niccolò Machiavelli, born on the third day of May 1469 was an Italian author of numerous plays, comedies, poetry and other works. However, his work, The Prince, was the most famous of all his literary compositions. In this book, Machiavelli, describes ways to attain and hold power, through which a prince can maintain a working government and relations with outsides foreign states. He states many rules to Power Politics, based on the belief that a state's leader should think logically and act upon that logic with the same convictions. Some of the ideas from The Prince are considered, by some, to be quite brutal, but no matter the moral relativity of his philosophy, many of these ideas still ring true in the world today.
Such was the odious sight which was the first to strike me.” | | A great commander, workaholic genius or a vicious cynic, these are just a few expressions which describe the personality of Napoleon. He was born in 1769 at Corsica to parents of noble Italian ancestry. The nobleness of his family opened to the future commander the door into to world. Napoleon and his brothers and sisters were admitted to the best French schools so he went to a military school at Brienne. The strong and stubborn personality of the young Bonaparte showed up very early.
A most notable philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola distinguishes himself of all other renaissance thinkers and scholars with his famous work that describes the supreme statement of the Renaissance idolization of man. Published after his death “Oration on the Dignity of Man” will later come to be known as the "Manifesto of the Renaissance". He was born in Mirandola in the 15th century, to a noble Italian family that was remarkable in the arts and study of the Italian Renaissance. As a young child he received an education in both Latin and Greek and showed an interest in the arts of philosophy as he went on to study at the University of Ferrara and later at the University of Padua, a major center of Aristotelianism. In 1485 he furthered his studies at the most important centre of Scholastic philosophy and theology, the University of Paris, as he astonished fellow scholars with his precocious learning.
Emile Durkheim a sociologist from France was the most influential functionalist of his time. In the twentieth century the theory was developed further in America by sociologists such as Talcott Parsons. During the 1940’s and 1950’s this theory was the most dominant perspective on how societies function, but was to lose its validity from the 1960’s onward, when it was criticised as being not general to the majority populous. Also at this time there were competing perspectives emerging that seemed to provide superior explanations on society. When functionalists describe society, they will often liken it to the human body, where all of the parts need to work in unison to ensure well being.