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For centuries
the society and politics of Old Regime Europe relied on the strong connection
between past, present, and future and on a belief in the unstoppable continuity
of time. What happened during the eighteenth century when the Age of Revolutions
claimed to cancel the previous social order and announced the dawn of a new
era? This book explores how antiquarianism provided new political bodies with
allegedly time-hallowed traditions and so served as a source of legitimacy for
reshaping European politics. The love for antiquities forged a common language
of political communication within a burgeoning public sphere.
To understand
why this happened, Marco Cavarzere focuses on the cultural debates taking place
in the Italian states from 1748 until 1796. During this period, governments
tried to establish regional "national cultures" through erudite scholarship,
with the intent of creating new administrative and political centralization
within individual Italian states. Meanwhile, other sectors of local societies
used the tools of antiquarianism in order to offer a counter-narrative on these
political reforms.
Ultimately, this
book proposes a localized way of reading antiquarian texts. Far from presenting
timeless knowledge, erudition in fact gave voice to specific tensions which
were linked to restricted political arenas and regional public opinion.
Contents
List of figures
Introduction
Concepts
Contents
I. Background
Chapter 1: A country under construction
Pushing Italy (and the world) aside
Nations and patrie
Languages of Italy
Chapter 2: The importance of being erudite
The Muratorian moment
Antiquarianism and political identities
Erudition and society
Chapter 3: Institutional settings
Public policies of communication
Aristocratic circles
Communication short circuits
II. Difficult transitions
Chapter 4: Naturalizing sovereignty: law and history
"The national king"
Conflicting kings
National laws
A century without Rome
Chapter 5: The land of Italian nations: space and history
Geography and politics
Chorographic debates
Antiquarian cartographies
Ritual geographies
Chapter 6: Historical representation: collective memory
and history
Hard times for state historiography
New media: heroic genealogies
National history on stage
Conclusion: an unfinished transition
Bibliography
Index
