81721 - History of the Risorgimento and National Revolutions (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

Nation-building and State-building phenomena, particularly in the early XIX century, will be the topics of the course. Secondly, the student must to place this process in the various continental contexts, identifying the fundamental characteristics. Third,  reconstruction of the Italian Risorgimento main stages, based on the latest Italian and international historiography, will be required.

Course contents

The course focuses on the development of the movements for nationalities in Europe. The international contexts in the first half of the nineteenth century will be presented, and so the first global success of the free market, the forms of the state organization in a liberal-constitutional perspective as alternatives to traditional monarchies. Independence and sovereignty in Europe and in particular and in Italy will then be examined. The use of the national question as a "defensive" resource by different communities during the first half of the nineteenth century will also be deepened. At last, the process by which, among the possible "national solutions", only the one supported by the liberal-constitutional culture prevailed in the old continent will be emphasized.

Lessons at disposal in the website can be chosen by attending students as alternative to one book.

Readings/Bibliography

Attending students:

1) Roberto Balzani, Carlo M. Fiorentino, Risorgimento: costituzione e indipendenza nazionale, 1815-1849, 1849-1866, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2022;

2) Arianna Arisi Rota, Risorgimento. Un viaggio politico e sentimentale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;

3) one among the following books:

a) Roberto Balzani, Memoria e nostalgia nel Risorgimento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020;

c) Silvia Cavicchioli, I cimeli della patria. Politica della memoria nel lungo Ottocento, Roma, Cartocci, 2022;

d) Elena Musiani, L'Europa liberale. Un modello per i notabili dello Stato pontificio, Roma, Tab, 2022;

d) Carmine Pinto, Il brigante e il generale. La guerra di Carmine Crocco e Emilio Pallavicini di Priola, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2022;

4) teaching material on the website.

 

Students not attending:

1) Roberto Balzani, Carlo M. Fiorentino, Risorgimento: costituzione e indipendenza nazionale, 1815-1849, 1849-1866, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2022;

2) Arianna Arisi Rota, Risorgimento. Un viaggio politico e sentimentale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;

3-4) and two among the following books:

a) Roberto Balzani, Memoria e nostalgia nel Risorgimento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020;

b) Silvia Cavicchioli, I cimeli della patria. Politica della memoria nel lungo Ottocento, Roma, Cartocci, 2022;

c) Elena Musiani, L'Europa liberale. Un modello per i notabili dello Stato pontificio, Roma, Tab, 2022;

d) Carmine Pinto, Il brigante e il generale. La guerra di Carmine Crocco e Emilio Pallavicini di Priola, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The exam is oral. There will be a debate on the books. Secondly, knowledge of the course contents will be tested (lessons).

Sufficiency will be achieved if the student is able to articulate a chronological and critical exposition of the principal phases of the discipline, adequately displayed.

An intermediate grade will be assigned to students who demonstrate, in addition to a good chronological and critical preparation, an adequate competence in relation to the sources.

In order to achieve excellence in the assessment, the student must demonstrate an organic vision of the topics addressed in class and in the texts on the syllabus, combining it with expressive mastery and specific language. This organic vision must integrate knowledge of manuals, historiography, and exegesis of the sources.

A student will be deemed to have failed the exam if he displays significant errors in his understanding and failure to grasp the overall outlines of the subject, together with a poor command of the appropriate terminology

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

Teaching tools

A PPT will be at disposal in the teaching material on the website with the lessons discussed during the course.

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Balzani