1776 - Echoes of the American Revolution in the Dukedom of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla

Within the scope of foreign and Italian historiography no research has been made on the reception of the American Revolution inside the north-central Italian states: the Dukedom of Parma, Piancenza and Guastalla and the Dukedom of Modena. This current work is meant to be the introduction to a larger study on how one of these small political entities became involved with the events that, during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, were to have a profound effect on the course of history.