City and the Nation in the Italian Unification
Mahnaz Yousefzadeh · 2011
על הספר
"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"--
פרטי הספר
- שנה
- 2011
- שפה
- English
- סדרה
- Italian and Italian American Studies
- הוצאה
- Palgrave Macmillan
- מהדורות
- 1
- עמודים
- 253
- ISBN
- 9780230108646
מקור הנתונים: Wikidata
