Description |
1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations |
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Italian and Italian American studies |
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Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Contents |
The Dante Centenary and the Centenary's Dante -- The City Organizes the Nation: The Structures of the Centenary -- "Carnevalino" or "Cold Official Discourse": The Program of the Festa -- Inclusion and Exclusion: The Logic of Participation -- The New Civic Vanguards: The Press and Public Opinion |
Summary |
This book is the study of the first national festival of modern Italy, the Sixth Centenary Festival of Dante Alighieri in 1865. The first national congregation of Italian civil society as well as ideological factions from the recently united cities and provinces, Dante Centenary was denominated alternatively as a national, European, and secular festa, which ultimately materialized as an eclectic Italian monument with extraordinary political, social and cultural significant. The study consists of an historical reconstruction of the event based on the discovery of a mass of un-catalogued and unpublished documents left by the organizers. The narrative poses the Centenary as a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian national identity emerged, one based on a longue duře of Florentine Cultural nationalism that opposed the Piedmontese territorial nationalism |
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"This book narrates the first national celebration of united Italy, the Sixth Centenary of Dante Alighieri in May 1865. Denominated alternatively as a national, European, and secular festa, the affair materialized as an eclectic Italian monument with extraordinary political, social and cultural significance. The Centenary was a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian identity emerged, one based on a Florentine cultural nationalism that opposed the Savoyard territorial nationalism. An stunningly popular event celebrated throughout Italian civil society, the festa was conceived, organized, and strategically promoted from a municipal center, the city of Florence. Its Florentine organizers successfully wrote the story of the Centenary as a parable of the Florentine son, Dante, who fathered the Italian nation as well as king Victor Emmanuel himself"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 03, 2022) |
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Anniversaries, etc
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SUBJECT |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 fast |
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National characteristics, Italian -- History
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Group identity -- Italy -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Anniversaries
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Group identity
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National characteristics, Italian
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Florence (Italy) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049194
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Italy
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Italy -- Florence
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780230118720 |
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0230118720 |
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