91680 - Political History of Italian Cultural Heritage since 1948

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Library and Archive Science (cod. 9077)

Learning outcomes

The aim of this course is to give the students some important ways to study, analyze and understand the importance of cultural heritage and of its political control, coordination and promotion in Italian modern history. First of all how were organized protection and conservation from the birth of the Italian kingdom till the Republican period. Secondly how the theme changed after the creation of the autonomous Ministry in 1974. And thirdly and finally to include all that in an European perspective, comparing the Italian case with other European ones. At the end of this course the students will be able to describe the evolution between cultural heritage and politics in Italian contemporary history. The students are going to control the most important scientific bibliography on the theme and they’re also going to implement the most important analysis check in studying the protection of cultural heritage and its political implication. And finally the students will learn to compare Italian case to other European matter.

Course contents

Week 1

The origins and the Italian tradition in the protection of the cultural heritage

Political use of cultural heritage and Bottai’s laws during Fascism

The Italian Republican Constitution and the Italian cultural heritage

Week 2

The “Repubblica dei partiti” and the political use of the cultural heritage (among Catholicism, Communism and Liberalism)

Franceschini’s Commission (1964-1966) and the cultural heritage during center-left government

The birth of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Spadolini’s role

Week 3

From cultural heritage to environmental heritage

Ronchey and cultural heritage in a transition period

Veltroni and the Ministry during the Ulivo’s era

Week 4

The 2004 Code of cultural heritage and of the environment (or the cultural heritage during the “Seconda Repubblica”)

Franceschini’s decree between culture and tourism

The Italian Presidency of the Republic and the cultural heritage

Week 5

Cultural heritage in European and global dimension

From the Global strategy for a representative, balanced and credible World Heritage List to the definition of an inviolable cultural heritage: the effects on the Italian contest


Readings/Bibliography

Attending students

 

C. Tosco, I beni culturali. Storia, tutela e valorizzazione, Il Mulino, 2014

 

One book to choose among:

V. Baldacci, Il sistema dei beni culturali in Italia. Valorizzazione, progettazione e comunicazione culturale, Giunti, 2004

F. Bottari-F. Pizzicannella, I beni culturali e il paesaggio. Le leggi, la storia, le responsabilità, Zanichelli, 2007

L. Casini, Ereditare il futuro. Dilemmi sul patrimonio culturale, Il Mulino, 2016

L. Covatta (a cura di), I beni culturali tra tutela, mercato e territorio, Passigli, 2012

A. Emiliani, Una politica dei Beni culturali, Einaudi, 1974

M. Fumaroli, Lo stato culturale. Una religione moderna, Adelphi, 1993

F. Maniscalco (a cura di), La tutela dei beni culturali in Italia, Massa Editrice, 2002

A. Ragusa (a cura di), La Nazione allo specchio, Lacaita, 2012

L.J. Smith, The Uses of Heritage, Taylor and Francis, 2006

 

Non attending students

 

C. Tosco, I beni culturali. Storia, tutela e valorizzazione, Il Mulino, 2014

A. Ragusa (a cura di), La Nazione allo specchio, Lacaita, 2012

 

Three books to choose among:

V. Baldacci, Il sistema dei beni culturali in Italia. Valorizzazione, progettazione e comunicazione culturale, Giunti, 2004

F. Bottari-F. Pizzicannella, I beni culturali e il paesaggio. Le leggi, la storia, le responsabilità, Zanichelli, 2007

L. Casini, Ereditare il futuro. Dilemmi sul patrimonio culturale, Il Mulino, 2016

L. Covatta (a cura di), I beni culturali tra tutela, mercato e territorio, Passigli, 2012

A. Emiliani, Una politica dei Beni culturali, Einaudi, 1974

M. Fumaroli, Lo stato culturale. Una religione moderna, Adelphi, 1993

F. Maniscalco (a cura di), La tutela dei beni culturali in Italia, Massa Editrice, 2002

 L.J. Smith, The Uses of Heritage, Taylor and Francis, 2006

 

Teaching methods

Classes will be built in part with frontal and traditional lessons, in part with discussions on papers and documents professor will provide the students.


Assessment methods

For attending students there will be an oral test on the lessons and on all the materials provided during classes and on the two books (one compulsory and one to chose) as specified in the section Readings/Bibliography.

 

For non attending students there will be a written test composed by 15 questions on the three compulsory books (see section Tests/Bibliography). If you pass this written part, there will be an oral test on the three books you decided to choose (see section Readings/Bibliography).


Teaching tools

PowerPoint slides, short historical movies, documents (such as newspaper articles, interviews, columns, laws, public speeches of institutional actors) indicated by the professor during classes.


Office hours

See the website of Michele Marchi