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City and Nation in the Italian Unification

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118720

ISBN: 978-1-349-29141-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 5, 2015

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Introduction

Yousefzadeh, Mahnaz

Pages: 1 –17

[In May 1865, 50,000 Italians undertook a pilgrimage to Florence in order to honor the six hundredth birthday of Dante Alighieri. The first national aggregate of workers, students, academics, artists, professionals, political groups, and ideological factions from the recently united cities and...
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The Dante Centenary and the Centenary’s Dante

Yousefzadeh, Mahnaz

Pages: 19 –38

[Ironically, the 1865 Centenary in honor of Italy’s greatest poet must be understood within the context of a period that Victor Emmanuel called an “age of prose”:3 an epoch in which the poetic heroism of the Risorgimento gave way to the realpolitik of the postunification decades.4]
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The City Organizes the Nation: The Structures of the Centenary

Yousefzadeh, Mahnaz

Pages: 39 –63

[The organizational development of the national festival of the Dante Centenary took place in the larger context of contemporary debates over the constitutional design of the new nation-state. While the actual creation of Italy as a unitary and monarchical state had rendered moot the alternative...
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“Carnevalino” or “Cold Official Discourse”: The Program of the Festa

Yousefzadeh, Mahnaz

Pages: 65 –94

[The most intricate and, ultimately, controversial undertaking of the Florentine Centenary Commission concerned the creation of a program for the festa: decisions on the general dispositions, regulations, activities, symbolism, and length of the event. The commission’s responsibilities involved...
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Inclusion and Exclusion: The Logic of Participation

Yousefzadeh, Mahnaz

Pages: 95 –129

[For the occasion of the Centenary, and for the first time in history, 50,000 Italians (30,000 of whom were non-Florentine) gathered in the new capital of the nation-state. They represented more than 1200 associations from across Italy. These included envoys from 543 municipalities, 31 provincial...
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The New Civic Vanguards: The Press and Public Opinion

Yousefzadeh, Mahnaz

Pages: 131 –157

[For the first time placed at the head of a civic procession, the Italian press emerged as a vanguard social and political institution during the Dante Festa. One hundred members of the press, “illuminatori della publica opinione” (as ironically dubbed by the oppositional La Civilta Cattolica),1...
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Conclusion

Yousefzadeh, Mahnaz

Pages: 159 –164

[The history of Dante Centenary supports, but also complicates, the historiographical literature on the commemorative politics of the postunification Italy. Bruno Tobia has identified the dialectic of modernity and tradition as one of the three characteristics of commemorative politics of the...

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