Title City and nation in the Italian Unification : the national festivals of Dante Alighieri / Mahnaz Yousefzadeh

Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations Series Italian and Italian American studies Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) 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 The study consists of an historical reconstruction of the event based on the discovery of a mass of un-catalogued and unpublished documents left by the organizers.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 "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) Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Anniversaries, etc SUBJECT Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 fast Subject National characteristics, Italian -- History Group identity -- Italy -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. Anniversaries Group identity National characteristics, Italian SUBJECT Florence (Italy) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049194 Subject Italy Italy -- Florence Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230118720 0230118720

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