THE MEANING OF NATIONAL REVIVAL AND 'or NOT' still relevant? Because the Risorgimento had happened? What stirred the people, cities, countries, leading them to take up arms on behalf of the United Patria Italy? Those feelings and values \u200b\u200bthey still hold today?
Last Sunday I attended one of the lessons of history 2011 - Issue III Italian identity, at the Odeon cinema in Florence, held by Alberto Banti (Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pisa) on The construction of identity Italian national .
The Risorgimento put in place a policy of 'new' because he wanted to involve the masses with communication tools that link directly to the heart of the individual, had roots in the full Romantic Europe, where communications were done in emotion rather than intellectual, and where the terms 'native' and 'nation' were acquiring a value of 'political' supplanting the strictly legal.
In Italy the political situation was fragmented and divided, and there was no common sense. New ideas beyond the Alps were heard by poets and writers who at first were uncertain in the definitions: Foscolo nell'Ortis reference is made to a nation with a Venetian Italian, and so did Vince Cook told the nation that first Neapolitan Italian.
But how it happened that a huge mass of people, so distant from each other by language, customs, and were seduced by ideas of 'nationality' and 'unity' within twenty years before the landing of the Mille? was a work of enormous propaganda, which was to make a mark indelible to those who could neither read nor write, a work that made use of various tools of persuasion:
- Novels
- drama and melodrama (more than 600 theaters were born in those years in Italy and melodrama played a leading role, so much so that some experts compare him to today's value of the TV)
- Painting
- Print
- Magnetic force and enthralling of Mazzini's Young Italy
- Support for the initial movement by Pope Pius IX (1846 to 1848)
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| Mazzini and Garibaldi |
message 'United Nations' breach made in the minds of the boot because it contained three elements:
1) The concept of nation was tied to that of FAMILY: cement which was to tie the 'brothers' and 'sisters' in Italy was the blood, a real biological component. Soon they made their way terms such as the Motherland, Father of the Nation, brothers and sisters, family of nations.
2) the concept of honor (in the eighteenth century the nobles and intellectuals who were traveling in Italy, often reported in their diaries the fiery character of the Italian man and irrational, unable to values \u200b\u200bsuch as the honor and respect for the opponent, as well as women of easy virtue and seen as fickle), the man had to show the alien invaders to have courage, sense of 'honor, ability to fight, you know how to be a HERO and knowing how to protect their women, to be whole and entire, virginal but inwardly strong, next brave man.
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| "The Sicilian Vespers" Hayez |
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[See the painting better than the other highlights this concept: "The Sicilian Vespers" by Hayez representing an incident in 1282 but in which the artist transposes the values \u200b\u200bof his time renaissance: This is a Sicilian family who goes to church for vespers, while a French soldier who takes advantage of a woman, and undermines the purity and innocence, so click the insurgency and the challenge to a duel of the offended husband, under the sign of the cross that radiates the values \u200b\u200bof Christianity.]
3) The concept and value of sacrifice , which improves the Sacred a person's life, until his exasperation, that the martyrdom and death in the name of the country. The lexicon is derived from that of the Christian religion, the protagonists themselves followers of Mazzini had the epithet of the Apostles. The very word 'Risorgimento' comes from 'RESURRECTION' theological revival of the death and oppression of the enemy.
After 1861, the Unit, all these concepts and values \u200b\u200bwill be lost, and will remain, revised and reworked, without their fascist Italy. BUT TODAY ? Does it really still make sense to return to values \u200b\u200bsuch as' blood only Italian ',' understood as a family Italian nationality by birth ', the' pure woman and man defense and combative hero ', the' war and martyrdom ', the' sacrifice and resurrection '? The commemoration for the Unification of Italy, as well as to honor men and young people who have historically fought to unite this country in shambles, subject and slave, also have the ambition to bring us to promote those values, born in that historical context, and sometimes distorted and exacerbated by the current fascist at a later date?
Professor BANTI also asked at the end of the lesson, and proposed a 'his' idea for new values \u200b\u200bto be inspired by thinking about preservation policy, legal and economic dimensions of our present-day Italy: VALUES OF PATRIOTISM A NEW ITALIAN INSPIRED BY THE CONSTITUTION,'s most beautiful one of the WORLD.
I agree. And you?
