Silvio Berlusconi

A study in failure

By: James L. Newell

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This book is about one of the most remarkable European politicians of recent decades, Silvio Berlusconi, and about his contribution to the dramatic changes that have overtaken Italian politics since the early 1990s. From the vantage point of 2017, would Italian political history of the past twenty-five years look substantially different had Berlusconi not had the high-profile role in it that he did? Asking the question makes it possible to contribute to a broader debate of recent years concerning the significance of leaders in post-Cold War democratic politics. Having considered Berlusconi's legacy in the areas of political culture, voting and party politics, public policy and the quality of Italian democracy, the book concludes by considering the international significance of the Berlusconi phenomenon in relation to the recent election of Donald Trump, with whom Berlusconi is often compared. -- .

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List of illustrations	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xx
General introduction	p. xxii
England, France and Burgundy in the fifteenth century	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Armagnac-Burgundian dispute (Journal of a Citizen of Paris)	p. 3
The Treaty of Troyes, 21 May 1420	p. 5
Henry VI's entry into Paris, 2 December 1431	p. 9
Normandy under the English occupation	p. 14
The unfortunate experiences of the Basin family	p. 14
On the pillages and plundering deplorably carried out throughout France	p. 17
Letter of remission granted by Henry VI as king of France to one of his Norman subjects	p. 18
Joan of Arc's letter to Philip, duke of Burgundy, 17 July 1429	p. 20
Charles VII institutes a commemoration of the fall of Cherbourg and recovery of Normandy	p. 22
The Juvenal family	p. 23
The rise and fall of Jacques Coeur	p. 25
Portrait of Jacques Coeur	p. 25
The arrest and condemnation of Jacques Coeur	p. 26
Journal of Jean Dauvet, royal proctor: investigations at Bourges (1453)	p. 28
Jacques Coeur's mansion: evidence from the seventeenth century	p. 32
The Treaty of Arras, 1435	p. 34
Ordinance of Thionville, Luxemburg, December, 1473	p. 35
Charles the Bold's jewelled hat	p. 36
Court protocol in France and Burgundy	p. 38
Charles VII of France and his queen Marie of Anjou visit Duchess Isabel at Chalons in 1445	p. 38
The birth of Mary of Burgundy	p. 39
The arrangements to be observed in the houses of princes or lords	p. 40
The arrangements to be observed in households of lower status	p. 40
Olivier de La Marche: the estate of the household of Charles duke of Burgundy	p. 42
Georges Chastelain, Chronique	p. 44
Prologue	p. 44
Competition for office	p. 45
Charles the Bold as duke	p. 46
Statutes of the Order of the Golden Fleece	p. 47
Criticism of Charles the Bold	p. 49
The submission of Ghent to Charles the Bold, 1469	p. 51
Contracts for making the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, 1447-54	p. 53
Sir John Fortescue, The Governance of England, 1470s	p. 58
Private indentures for life service in peace and war	p. 62
Richard Neville, earl of Warwick and Salisbury and Robert Cuny, esquire, 25 September 1467	p. 63
Thomas Sandforth of Askham, esquire, and William Bradley of Knipe, yeoman, 17 January 1468	p. 64
The Paston correspondence	p. 65
Clement Paston to John Paston I, 25 August 1461	p. 66
John Paston III to John Paston I, 1 November 1462	p. 67
J. Payn to John Paston I, 1465	p. 67
William Ebsham to John Paston II, summer or early autumn 1468	p. 69
John Paston III to Margaret Paston, 12 October 1470	p. 70
John Paston II to Margaret Paston, 18 April 1471	p. 71
John Paston III to Margaret Paston, 30 April 1471	p. 72
The Stonor letters and papers	p. 73
Thomas Betson to William Stonor, 12 April 1476	p. 74
Thomas Betson to William Stonor, 22 April 1476	p. 74
Thomas Betson to Katherine Rich, 1 June 1476	p. 75
Henry Dogett to William or to Thomas Stonor, 20 October 1476	p. 76
Elizabeth Stonor to William Stonor, 22 October 1476	p. 76
The Creed	p. 78
The funeral of Thomas Stonor and heirlooms in the chapel and house at Stonor, c. 1474	p. 80
The funeral of Thomas Stonor	p. 81
Heirlooms in the chapel and house at Stonor, c. 1474	p. 82
Lollards of Coventry, 1486-1522	p. 83
Margery Locock, 31 October 1511	p. 83
Alice Rowley, 31 October and 5 November 1511	p. 84
Robert Hatchet, 5 November 1511	p. 84
John Atkinson, 2 November 1511 (a continuation of that on 30 October 1511)	p. 86
Thomas Bown, 3 November 1511	p. 87
John Spon, 3 November 1511	p. 88
Thomas Flesshor, 3 November 1511	p. 89
Letter of Geoffrey Blyth, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to William Smith, bishop of Lincoln, 3 November 1511	p. 89
Joan Smith, 4 November 1511	p. 90
Foxe's-Books of Martyrs	p. 91
The wife of Sir Smyth, with six others of Coventry, burned	p. 91
Mistress Smith, widow of Coventry, with six other men burned	p. 92
The continuity between Lollardy and the reformed faith	p. 94
Churchwardens' accounts and inventories of church goods from Edward IV to Edward VI	p. 95
Church of All Hallows, London Wall, 1468	p. 96
Church of All Saints, Bristol, c. 1450-c. 1500	p. 100
Destruction of images in the reign of King Edward VI	p. 102
The purchase of new Protestant requirements for Lambeth church	p. 104
The European Reformation, 1500-1600	p. 106
Introduction	p. 106
Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, 1511	p. 108
Martin Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, 1520	p. 114
The Twelve Articles of the Upper Swabian Peasants, February 1525	p. 117
Strasburg preachers' reply to Alsatian peasants, 18 April 1525	p. 119
Argula von Grumbach, 'A Christian Noblewoman's Missive', 1523	p. 122
Deliberations of the magistracy and guilds in Strasburg on the Peasants' War, May 1525	p. 124
Sturm and Pfarrer's letter to the Strasburg magistracy, 2 June 1530	p. 126
Strasburg Church Order, 1534	p. 130
Bucer's response to Hoffman, 1534	p. 133
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion	p. 135
Establishment of Calvinism in Switzerland	p. 137
Letter to Oswald Myconius, 14 March 1542	p. 137
Letter to William Farel, April 1546	p. 140
Letter to Heinrich Bullinger, 15 June 1555	p. 142
Marie Dentiere's letter to Queen Marguerite of Navarre, 1539	p. 147
Act in restraint of appeals to Rome, 1533	p. 148
Acts of Supremacy, 1534 and 1559	p. 151
Henrican Act, 1534	p. 152
Elizabethan Act and Oath of Supremacy, 1559	p. 152
Preambles to wills as indicators of religious belief	p. 153
Will of Joan Brytten, 1540	p. 154
Will of Edward Hoppaye of Halifax, 1548	p. 155
Will of Richard Wenman of Witney, Oxon, 1533 (abstract)	p. 156
Prayer books and the struggle for the church under Edward VI	p. 156
Extracts from the 1549 edition	p. 157
Extracts from the 1552 edition	p. 162
Zurich letters: correspondence between leaders of the early Elizabethan church and continental churchmen, 1559-65	p. 168
John Jewel to Peter Martyr, 5 November 1559	p. 170
John Jewel to Peter Martyr, 16 November 1559	p. 170
Thomas Sampson to Peter Martyr, 6 January 1560	p. 171
Peter Martyr to Thomas Sampson, 1 February 1560, from Zurich	p. 172
Edwin Sandys to Peter Martyr, 1 April 1560	p. 172
Laurence Humphrey to Henry Bullinger, Oxford, 16 August 1563	p. 173
Thomas Sampson to Henry Bullinger, 16 February 1566	p. 173
Edmund Grindal to Henry Bullinger, 27 August 1566	p. 175
Copy letter book of Thomas Bentham, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1560s	p. 176
Come over the born, Bessy: a song between the Queen's Majesty and England	p. 183
Letter of Philip II to the duchess of Parma, 17 October 1565	p. 186
Petition of Compromise, 5 April 1566	p. 189
Two accounts of hedge-preaching in the Netherlands, 1566	p. 192
The Council of Troubles in Brill, 1566-7	p. 196
The prince of Orange's warning to the inhabitants of the Netherlands, 1 September 1568	p. 199
Letters to the Dutch Church in London	p. 202
Letter of Bartholdus Wilhelmi, 29 August 1572	p. 202
Letter of Daniel de Dieu, 9 August 1582	p. 204
The wars of the three kingdoms, 1640-90	p. 207
Introduction	p. 207
Writing the history of the English civil war: John Rushworth	p. 209
Rewriting the history of the civil war: John Nalson	p. 211
Mrs Frances King's account of the war and its aftermath	p. 213
Resistance to ship money, 1639	p. 217
Episcopal visitation articles and returns of the 1630s	p. 218
Headings and extracts from Articles to be enquired of within the Diocese of Hereford in the first visitation of the reverend Father in God, Matthew Lord Bishop of Hereford, 1635	p. 218
Extract from Bishop Matthew Wren's Orders for Norwich Diocese, 1636	p. 221
Extract from Articles to be Inquired of within the Diocese of Ely in the First Visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Matthew Lord Bishop of Ely, 1638	p. 221
Extract from the answers of the parish of Shepreth, Cambs to the questions in Bishop Wren's 1638 Visitation	p. 222
The National Covenant, 1638	p. 224
Acts of the General Assembly at Glasgow, 1638	p. 225
The Nature of the Irish, 1610	p. 226
Protestant depositions in Ireland, 1641	p. 227
Deposition of Honora Beamond, 7 June 1643	p. 227
Deposition of Margaret Farmenie and Margaret Leathley, 3 January 1642	p. 228
The humble petition of Elizabeth Birche to the Right Honourable Lords Justices and Council, c. 1643	p. 229
Extracts from the Grand Remonstrance, 1641	p. 229
Newsbook accounts of an engagement at Warrington, 8 April 1643	p. 231
Mercurius Aulicus (Royalist newsbook)	p. 231
The Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer (Parliamentarian newsbook)	p. 232
A Continuation of certaine Speciall and Remarkable Passages from both Houses of Parliament	p. 233
The religious provisions of the Solemn League and Covenant, September 1643	p. 234
Agitators and Levellers, 1647	p. 235
An Agreement of the People	p. 235
Extracts from the debates at Putney, 29 October 1647	p. 236
Charles I's Engagement with the Scots, 1647	p. 238
Supplying a provincial garrison	p. 239
Receipts for the assessment for the parish of Winsley and Stoke, 1644	p. 239
Disbursements for the garrison of Great Chalfield	p. 240
Passages from Isabella and Roger Twysden's Diaries, 1645	p. 241
Isabella Twysden	p. 242
Roger Twysden	p. 244
The trial of Charles I, 1649	p. 247
Extracts from the trial proceedings	p. 247
Depositions taken against the king	p. 250
Parliament and king, 27-30 January 1649	p. 251
Scotland under the Commonwealth	p. 252
The diary of John Nicoll, December 1651	p. 252
The diary of John Lamont, 1652	p. 253
The rule of the Major-Generals, 1655-7	p. 254
Major-General Kelsey to Secretary Thurloe, Maidstone, 20 November 1655	p. 254
Major-General Kelsey to the Protector, early 1656	p. 255
Extract from the Declaration of Breda, 4 April 1660	p. 256
Extract from George Walker's account of the siege of Derry, 1689	p. 258
A Jacobite account of the battle of the Boyne, 1690	p. 260
Slavery and freedom	p. 262
Introduction	p. 262
Africans as a sub-species of humanity: an eighteenth-century view	p. 264
Letters of John Matthews, 1787-8	p. 266
Thomas Clarkson, An Essay on the Efficiency of Regulation of Abolition..., 1789	p. 270
Enlightenment definitions of slavery	p. 273
Slavery	p. 273
The slave trade	p. 278
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations	p. 280
The Saint Domingue Revolution, 1790s	p. 282
Letter from Toussaint L'Ouverture to the Reverend Father, Vicar of Gonaives, 5 May 1794	p. 282
Letter from Toussaint L'Ouverture to Messieurs the refugee inhabitants of Gonaives, 5 May 1794	p. 284
Letters of General Leclerc to Napoleon Bonaparte, August 1802	p. 285
Letter of 6 August 1802	p. 285
Letter of 26 September 1802	p. 287
Thomas Clarkson and the Abolition Movement	p. 288
Elizabeth Heyrick's call for a total end to slavery	p. 296
Report on the Sam Sharpe rebellion	p. 298
Sam Sharpe rebellion - witness testimonies and confessions from convicted prisoners, 1832	p. 299
Voluntary confession of Linton, a prisoner in Savannah la Mar Gaol, under sentence of death, March 1832	p. 300
Confession of Robert Gardner, alias Colonel Gardner, taken in Savannah la Mar Gaol, 11 February 1832	p. 301
Questions put to Robert, alias Colonel Gardner, by Thomas Stewart, and the answers given by him, 11 February 1832, in Savannah la Mar Gaol	p. 304
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835-40	p. 306
Creating nations, 1789-1871	p. 312
Introduction	p. 312
Decree of the National Convention (levee en masse), 23 August 1793	p. 314
Le chant du depart (The Song of Departure), c. 1794	p. 315
The Napoleonic Code, 21 March 1804	p. 317
The Riga Memorandum, September 1807	p. 320
Letters of Napoleon Bonaparte	p. 323
Napoleon to Joseph Fouche, Minister of Police, 21 April 1807	p. 323
Napoleon to General Caulaincourt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, 28 March 1815	p. 324
Reflections of a Romantic	p. 325
The king of Prussia to his people, 17 March 1813	p. 326
British volunteer forces called to arms	p. 328
Appeal for a volunteer company	p. 328
Volunteer song	p. 329
Prince Metternich's political confession of faith, sent to Tsar Alexander I, December 1820	p. 330
A soldier and a citizen	p. 335
The Silesian Weavers' rising, June 1844	p. 336
Memoirs of a young journeyman	p. 341
Food riots	p. 343
Cornish letter, 1795	p. 343
Revd A.B. Haden to the Home Secretary, 1800	p. 344
French Minister of the Interior to Louis XVIII, 1817	p. 345
The first national Chartist petition, July 1839	p. 346
The prospectus for L'Artisan, Journal de la Classe Ouvriere, 1830	p. 350
The Communist Manifesto, 1848	p. 352
Decrees of the French provisional government, 25 February 1848	p. 356
The right to work	p. 357
Goods pawned	p. 357
Injured workers	p. 357
National workshops	p. 357
Manifesto of the Delegates of the Corporations (Seated at the Luxembourg) to the Workers of the Department of the Seine, 8 June 1848	p. 358
Peasants in the mid-nineteenth century	p. 359
Riots at Venosa in Basilicata, 23-25 April 1848	p. 359
Demands of a peasant deputation in the German Grand Duchy of Hesse, 1848	p. 360
Commentary on the condition of the Hungarian peasantry	p. 362
Secret Memorandum by Andrei Zablotskii-Desyatovskii, Assistant Minister, to the Minister of State Domains, Count Paul Kiselev, Russia, 1841	p. 363
Annual Report of the Chief of Third Section (the Secret Police) to Nicholas I for 1839	p. 364
Letter by Richard Oastler to the Leeds Mercury, 1830	p. 366
Ernest Renan's 'Qu'est-ce qu'une Nation?' [What is a Nation?]	p. 367
French ministerial circular, 14 August 1925	p. 371
Materials for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, 1784	p. 372
Extracts from a range of Third Republic primary and secondary school textbooks	p. 374
For use of children aged 6-7 during their 'preparatory' year in primary school	p. 375
For use with children aged 9-11 during primary schooling	p. 375
For use in the first years of secondary schools	p. 375
David Hume, 'Of National Characters'	p. 376
William Shakespeare's Henry V	p. 378
Introduction to Macaulay's History of England	p. 380
Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe	p. 381
Michelet, History of the French Revolution	p. 382
Nationality and representative government	p. 385
Max Weber, 'The Nation', 1921	p. 389
Lord Acton, 'Nationality', 1862	p. 395
Nations and Empire, 1870-1914	p. 400
Introduction	p. 400
Theories of imperialism	p. 402
Imperialism and capitalism	p. 406
Joseph Chamberlain, speech on 'The True Conception of Empire', 1897	p. 409
Britain's acquisition of Egypt in 1882	p. 411
Booms and slumps in the Dundee textile industry	p. 414
Summary of evidence presented to the Tariff Commission, 1905	p. 416
The Protectionist Revival: letters by Dundee merchants	p. 417
Textile manufacturers in Dundee, 1864	p. 421
The Dundee local trade in 1892	p. 424
A tourist description of Dundee	p. 425
Report of the Committee of the Dundee Social Union	p. 426
Speeches and documents of Leopold II, king of the Belgians	p. 428
Speech to the Belgian Senate, 31 March 1861	p. 429
Speech opening the International Geographical Conference on Africa, in Brussels, 12 September 1876	p. 430
Letter to M. Beernaert, First Minister of Belgium, 22 September 1889	p. 430
Memorial by Leopold II in the last edition of the Official Bulletin of the Congo Free State, 1908	p. 431
Protest against atrocities in the Congo	p. 432
Roger Casement's Congo Report, 11 December 1903	p. 434
The 'Hun-Speech'	p. 437
German settlers and the Herero uprising, 1904	p. 439
How the Herero lived	p. 439
Relations between the German settlers and the Herero	p. 441
Else Sonnenberg's account of the attack of the Herero on her family, 14 January 1904	p. 443
Retribution against the Herero	p. 445
German colonial policy: speeches at the Reichstag	p. 446
Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, 28 November 1906	p. 446
August Bebel, 1 November 1906	p. 447
Wilhelm Solf, State Secretary of the Colonial Office, 6 March 1913	p. 447
Index	p. 449
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