Historical culture and political reform in the Italian Enlightenment

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Historical culture and political reform in the Italian Enlightenment

Marco Cavarzere

(Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2020:09)

Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, c2020

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Bibliography: p. 287-327

Includes index

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For centuries the society and politics of Old Regime Europe relied on the strong connection between past, present, and future and on a belief in the unstoppable continuity of time. What happened during the eighteenth century when the Age of Revolutions claimed to cancel the previous social order and announced the dawn of a new era? This book explores how antiquarianism provided new political bodies with allegedly time-hallowed traditions and so served as a source of legitimacy for reshaping European politics. The love for antiquities forged a common language of political communication within a burgeoning public sphere. To understand why this happened, Marco Cavarzere focuses on the cultural debates taking place in the Italian states from 1748 until 1796. During this period, governments tried to establish regional "national cultures" through erudite scholarship, with the intent of creating new administrative and political centralization within individual Italian states. Meanwhile, other sectors of local societies used the tools of antiquarianism in order to offer a counter-narrative on these political reforms. Ultimately, this book proposes a localized way of reading antiquarian texts. Far from presenting timeless knowledge, erudition in fact gave voice to specific tensions which were linked to restricted political arenas and regional public opinion.

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List of figures Introduction Concepts Contents I. Background Chapter 1: A country under construction Pushing Italy (and the world) aside Nations and patrie Languages of Italy Chapter 2: The importance of being erudite The Muratorian moment Antiquarianism and political identities Erudition and society Chapter 3: Institutional settings Public policies of communication Aristocratic circles Communication short circuits II. Difficult transitions Chapter 4: Naturalizing sovereignty: law and history "The national king" Conflicting kings National laws A century without Rome Chapter 5: The land of Italian nations: space and history Geography and politics Chorographic debates Antiquarian cartographies Ritual geographies Chapter 6: Historical representation: collective memory and history Hard times for state historiography New media: heroic genealogies National history on stage Conclusion: an unfinished transition Bibliography Index

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