The Cultural Challenge To The Risorgimento

Question 1

Risorgimento

Answer 1

19th century movement for Italian unification that culimanted in the establishment of the kingdom of Italy in 1861. An ideological and literary movement that aroused National consciousness of Italian people

Question 2

Dante

Answer 2

Born in Florence and was an Italian poet in which he defined the Italian language as it is used today

Question 3

Machaevelli

Answer 3

First great political philosopher of the renaissance and his writings focused on the practical problems a monarch faces in stating in power

Question 4

Jacobins

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Involved in plots to overthrow the government in Naples and Turin 1794 which was mainly educated people who spoke in terms of liberty for the Italian people with the destruction of the autocracy

Question 5

Linguistic divisions

Answer 5

In 1871 only 630000 out of 27 mil spoke the Italian language whilst 2/3 were illiterate - this meant that Metternich only saw Italy as a geographical expression
Journals such as the biblioteca Italians 1816 were allowed by Austrian rulers because they weren’t openly political but raised consciousness under a common culture and language - though only among educated people

Question 6

Congress of science

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Held meetings between 1839 and 1847 spoke in the Tuscan language and had a political edge . E.g netting held in 1846 was used as an occasion to Celebrate the victory of Italians over Austrians in 1746
The National organisation provided a function of a nursery for moderate nationalists opinion

Question 7

Patriotic themes in music and literacy works

Answer 7

Guiseppe Verdi : drew a parallel between the enslavement of Israelites and the repression of Italians aswell as the perforate of i Lombardi was often linked with anti Austrian settlement
However his work was limited because it only represented the cultural expression of the Milanese nationalist middle class