45900 - History of Risorgimento (1) (Second Level Course)

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Angelo Varni
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: M-STO/04
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Music Disciplines (cod. 0431)

Course contents

The course intends to examine the most significant phases of the process of the Risorgimento, inserting them in the reality of a country economically and socially still underdeveloped, confronting the following one another of the events, Italians and Europeans, and the building of the "native memories" and the historiographic interpretations which are derived.

Readings/Bibliography

- D. Beales, E. Biagini, "Il Risorgimento e l'unificazione italiana", Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005; 

- F. Chabod, "Storia della politica estera italiana", Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1976: cap. I, "La guerra franco-prussiana e l'Italia", cap. II, "L'idea di Roma";

- W. Maturi, "Interpretazioni del Risorgimento. Lezioni di storia della storiografia", Torino, Einaudi, 1971: pp. 377-399, 447-471, 617-692.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Office hours

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