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Emotions, rationality and political intentionality in patriotic / Isabella, Maurizio

Isabella, Maurizio	Journal Article
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Publication	2009.
Summary/Abstract	The procedures by which Alberto Banti defines the Risorgimento as a construction founded in the main upon deep images linked to the emotive and symbolic sphere raise question of the utmost importance regarding the very nature of Italian nationalism.

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Italy ; Emotions ; Risorgimento ; Ideological ; Alberto Banti ; Italian Nationalism

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ID: 111490

Limits of cultural nationalism: Italian Switzerland from a risorgimento perspective / Hughes, Steven C

Hughes, Steven C	Journal Article
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2012.

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This article critiques the 'cultural turn' in Italian Risorgimento historiography by examining Italian Switzerland, and specifically Ticino. This area paradoxically aided and abetted Italian patriots, especially Giuseppe Mazzini, yet rejected becoming part of the Italian national project. This paradox is heightened by the fact that the vast majority of the Italian nationalist literary canon, as identified by Alberto Maria Banti, was republished in Ticino. The paradox is explained in terms of the conflict between long-standing traditions of local autonomy and the idea of any form of uniform or centralised control, as originally represented by the Cisalpine Republic and then by both versions (Napoleonic and Piedmontese) of the Kingdom of Italy. However, I also use Banti's cultural concepts to demonstrate the creation of a powerful counter-myth of Italian Swiss nationalism in the character of William Tell.

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Risorgimento ; Alberto Banti ; Italian Switzerland ; Swiss Nationalism ; Ticino ; William Tell

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ID: 089212

Risorgimento nationalism in the light of general debates about / Breuilly, John

Breuilly, John	Journal Article
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Publication	2009.
Summary/Abstract	This discussion of Alberto Banti's work on Risorgimento nationalism raises important theoretical and conceptual questions about nationalism generally. Banti is well aware of these questions but comments on them principally to clarify his own approach. Here they are my central concern.

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Nationalism ; Risorgimento Nationalism ; Alberto Banti ; Cultural and Social History

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