The Golden Horde: Revolutionary Italy, 1960–1977 (The Italian List) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857427466 ISBN 13: 9780857427465

Publisher: Seagull Books, 2021

Synopsis

The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, the volume widens our understanding of the full complexity and richness of this period of radical thought and practice. The book covers the generational turbulence of Italy’s postwar period, the transformations of Italian capitalism, the new analyses by worker-focused intellectuals, the student movement of 1968, the Hot Autumn of 1969, the extra-parliamentary groups of the early 1970s, the Red Brigades, the formation of a radical women’s movement, the development of Autonomia, and the build-up to the watershed moment of the spontaneous political movement of 1977. Far from being merely a handbook of political history, The Golden Horde also sheds light on two decades of Italian culture, including the newspapers, songs, journals, festivals, comics, and philosophy that these movements produced. The book features writings by Sergio Bologna, Umberto Eco, Elvio Fachinelli, Lea Melandri, Danilo Montaldi, Toni Negri, Raniero Panzieri, Franco Piperno, Rossana Rossanda, Paolo Virno, and others, as well as an in-depth introduction by translator Richard Braude outlining the work’s composition and development.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Nanni Balestrini (1935–2019) was a poet, experimental writer, visual artist and founding member of both the avant-garde Gruppo ’63 and the revolutionary organization Potere Operaio. Primo Moroni (1936–1998) was a writer, activist, and archivist. Founder of the Calusca bookshop in Milan, for decades he was a point of reference for radical movements and subcultures across Italy. Richard Braude is a translator living in Palermo, Sicily.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0857427466
• ISBN 13: 9780857427465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600
• Editor: Balestrini Nanni, Moroni Primo