Title: City and the Nation in the Italian Unification
Description: "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"--
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Group identity, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Anniversaries, Italian National characteristics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, History, Dante alighieri, 1265-1321, National characteristics, italian, Florence (italy), history
Places: Italy, Florence (Italy)
People: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)