Chapter Da Verri a Cuoco. Il dibattito sul carattere degli Italiani tra Sette e Ottocento

Even today, Italians tend to adopt a double imagine of their national character, played on the contrast between an evolved and conscious minority (‘us’) and a backward and typically pre-modern majority (‘them’). As Giulio Bollati has shown better than any other in a famous essay, this self-represent...

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Main Author: MANNORI, LUCA
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Language:Italian
Published: Firenze University Press 2022
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description Even today, Italians tend to adopt a double imagine of their national character, played on the contrast between an evolved and conscious minority (‘us’) and a backward and typically pre-modern majority (‘them’). As Giulio Bollati has shown better than any other in a famous essay, this self-representation draws its origins first of all from the period between the late Enlightenment and the early Napoleonic age, in which for the first time the Peninsula was called to deal with the models imposed by the great European modernization. The paper aims to reconstruct the process that led some of the most prominent political thinkers of this years (Baretti, Verri, Gioia, Botta, Cuoco) to adopt the image mentioned above - and this privileging the approach of the constitutional history.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-832252022-06-02T04:26:26Z Chapter Da Verri a Cuoco. Il dibattito sul carattere degli Italiani tra Sette e Ottocento MANNORI, LUCA National characters Italian identity Even today, Italians tend to adopt a double imagine of their national character, played on the contrast between an evolved and conscious minority (‘us’) and a backward and typically pre-modern majority (‘them’). As Giulio Bollati has shown better than any other in a famous essay, this self-representation draws its origins first of all from the period between the late Enlightenment and the early Napoleonic age, in which for the first time the Peninsula was called to deal with the models imposed by the great European modernization. The paper aims to reconstruct the process that led some of the most prominent political thinkers of this years (Baretti, Verri, Gioia, Botta, Cuoco) to adopt the image mentioned above - and this privileging the approach of the constitutional history. 2022-06-02T04:26:24Z 2022-06-02T04:26:24Z 2022-06-01T12:16:28Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855181600_399 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56216 9788855181600 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/83225 ita Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56216/1/15523.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-160-0.06 10.36253/978-88-5518-160-0.06 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855181600 17 Florence open access
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Chapter Da Verri a Cuoco. Il dibattito sul carattere degli Italiani tra Sette e Ottocento
title Chapter Da Verri a Cuoco. Il dibattito sul carattere degli Italiani tra Sette e Ottocento
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title_short Chapter Da Verri a Cuoco. Il dibattito sul carattere degli Italiani tra Sette e Ottocento
title_sort chapter da verri a cuoco il dibattito sul carattere degli italiani tra sette e ottocento
topic National characters
Italian identity
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Italian identity
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