The course aims to provide the knowledge of the main stages of the process of national unification between the end of the eighteenth century and the last decades of the nineteenth century, offering a wider discussion of the question of he question of the relationship between arms and nation in revolutionary and Napoleonic Italy. At the end of the course, students will be able to know the chronological development of the main events in the history of the Italian Risorgimento, grasping its main features and lines of transformation in the broader global context of the age of Revolutions. They will be able to critically evaluate, with independent judgement skills, the main historiographical orientations that, from the Second World War to the present day, have guided research.
Course Prerequisites
The course presupposes the ability of analytical and synthetic comprehension of a text. An elementary knowledge of Italian and European geography is required. The acquisition of minimal information on the lines of development of Italian history in the late modern age is also assumed.
Teaching Methods
Lectures during which, through the examination of some texts, the main events and historiographic nodes concerning the subject of the course will be considered.
Assessment Methods
Oral examinations aimed at verifying the skills acquired, including the ability to reconstruct the main interpretive lines of the history and historiography of the Risorgimento, with particular reference to the texts discussed during the lessons.
Texts
Compulsory reading of two texts (one with a handbook slant, the other related to the monographic part of the course) is required of everyone: 1) A volume of your choice from the following: - Alberto Mario Banti, Il Risorgimento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008 (ediz. 2021) - Gilles Pécout, Il lungo Risorgimento. La nascita dell'Italia contemporanea (1770-1922), Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2011 2) A volume of your choice from the following: - Stefano Levati (a cura di), L’affaire Ceroni. Ordine militare e cospirazione politica nella Milano di Bonaparte, Milano, Guerini e Associati, 2005 - Maria Canella (a cura di), Armi e nazione. Dalla Repubblica Cisalpina al Regno d'Italia, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2009 - Umberto Carpi, Patrioti e napoleonici. Alle origini dell’identità nazionale, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2013 (fino a p. 321) - Gianluca Albergoni, La battaglia perduta e vinta. Napoleone a Marengo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2024 - Marco Emanuele Omes, La festa di Napoleone. Sovranità, legittimità e sacralità nell'Europa napoleonica, 1799-1815, Roma, Viella, 2023
Contents
The course provides a first part to identify the main events of the process of national unification (from the Triennio repubblicano 1796-1799 to the conquest of Rome in 1870) and will take into account the first steps of the construction of the national state. The second part of the course will focus on discussing the problem of the relationship between arms and nation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Italy.
Course Language
Italian
More information
All students wishing to have any further information, must first contact the teacher during the reception or by mail (gianluca.albergoni@unipv.it). Students authorised to benefit from inclusive teaching are invited to contact the teacher to establish the arrangements. Non-attending students should contact the lecturer to discuss examination arrangements.
