Maurizio Isabella
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199570676
- eISBN:
- 9780191721991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570676.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter explores the impact that English politics and institutions had on Risorgimento liberalism. It argues that the exiles' observations can be seen as the foundation of Risorgimento ...
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This chapter explores the impact that English politics and institutions had on Risorgimento liberalism. It argues that the exiles' observations can be seen as the foundation of Risorgimento Anglophilia. Italian historiography has traditionally viewed Risorgimento Anglophilia as evidence of the backward nature of Italian moderate liberalism. The writings on England of Giuseppe Pecchio, Pellegrino Rossi, and Ugo Foscolo and other exiles, however, demonstrate that it was thoroughly conversant with French Anglophilia, and that exile liberalism was in fact more progressive than its French equivalent, as it continued to support the revolutionary idea of popular sovereignty while praising the role of an aristocracy devoted to the public good. At the same time, when assessing the possibility of transferring foreign constitutions to Italy, the exiles almost invariably advocated the integration of the most advanced French and English political models with local institutions, and the adoption of reforms inspired by 18th-century Italian philosophers and constitutionalists like Filangieri or Pagano.Less
This chapter explores the impact that English politics and institutions had on Risorgimento liberalism. It argues that the exiles' observations can be seen as the foundation of Risorgimento Anglophilia. Italian historiography has traditionally viewed Risorgimento Anglophilia as evidence of the backward nature of Italian moderate liberalism. The writings on England of Giuseppe Pecchio, Pellegrino Rossi, and Ugo Foscolo and other exiles, however, demonstrate that it was thoroughly conversant with French Anglophilia, and that exile liberalism was in fact more progressive than its French equivalent, as it continued to support the revolutionary idea of popular sovereignty while praising the role of an aristocracy devoted to the public good. At the same time, when assessing the possibility of transferring foreign constitutions to Italy, the exiles almost invariably advocated the integration of the most advanced French and English political models with local institutions, and the adoption of reforms inspired by 18th-century Italian philosophers and constitutionalists like Filangieri or Pagano.
Martin Mclaughlin
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264133
- eISBN:
- 9780191734649
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264133.003.0020
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter documents the extraordinary enthusiasm for biographies of Petrarch in Great Britain in the three-quarters of a century between 1775 and 1850. It explains that during the late eighteenth ...
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This chapter documents the extraordinary enthusiasm for biographies of Petrarch in Great Britain in the three-quarters of a century between 1775 and 1850. It explains that during the late eighteenth century Petrarch was more popular than Dante in Britain but Dante soon eclipsed his successor after the rise of Romanticism. It considers works on Petrarch including those of Ugo Foscolo and Walter Savage Landor and suggests some reasons why Petrarch's popularity died out in Britain so suddenly and so radically in the second half of the nineteenth century.Less
This chapter documents the extraordinary enthusiasm for biographies of Petrarch in Great Britain in the three-quarters of a century between 1775 and 1850. It explains that during the late eighteenth century Petrarch was more popular than Dante in Britain but Dante soon eclipsed his successor after the rise of Romanticism. It considers works on Petrarch including those of Ugo Foscolo and Walter Savage Landor and suggests some reasons why Petrarch's popularity died out in Britain so suddenly and so radically in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Konstantina Zanou
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198788706
- eISBN:
- 9780191830785
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198788706.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Chapter 1 offers a thematic biography of Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), one of Italy’s canonical poets. It reconstructs the linguistic and literary landscape of Foscolo’s native Ionian Islands and follows ...
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Chapter 1 offers a thematic biography of Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), one of Italy’s canonical poets. It reconstructs the linguistic and literary landscape of Foscolo’s native Ionian Islands and follows the poet’s gradual Italianization as a man of letters and a political activist. By focusing on his celebrated work Le Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis, it explores the role of exile both as a powerful motif of Risorgimento literature and as a driving force in the poet’s own biography and image-making. Lastly, the chapter investigates Foscolo’s transnational patriotism between Venice, Napoleonic Italy, the British Ionian Islands, and revolutionary Greece.Less
Chapter 1 offers a thematic biography of Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), one of Italy’s canonical poets. It reconstructs the linguistic and literary landscape of Foscolo’s native Ionian Islands and follows the poet’s gradual Italianization as a man of letters and a political activist. By focusing on his celebrated work Le Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis, it explores the role of exile both as a powerful motif of Risorgimento literature and as a driving force in the poet’s own biography and image-making. Lastly, the chapter investigates Foscolo’s transnational patriotism between Venice, Napoleonic Italy, the British Ionian Islands, and revolutionary Greece.
Maurizio Isabella
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199570676
- eISBN:
- 9780191721991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570676.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter assesses the distinctive features of the exiles' Philhellenism as compared to its British and continental versions. It considers the contrasting in attitudes of Italian exiles and ...
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This chapter assesses the distinctive features of the exiles' Philhellenism as compared to its British and continental versions. It considers the contrasting in attitudes of Italian exiles and British liberals towards Greek and Mediterranean freedom. It argues that while the Italian exiles considered Greece to be a European country ready for independence and representative institutions, and justified any means which would achieve this goal, the Benthamites orientalized Greece, depicted it as a backward Asian country, and believed that it needed to be ‘educated’ before it could become independent. The greatest contribution of the Italian volunteers to European Philhellenism was the notion of Mediterranean sisterhood between Italy and Greece and the idea that underpinned Italian patriotism until the end of the century. The significance heroic martyrdom of Santorre di Santarosa, who became the most famous European Philhellenic icon after Byron, lay precisely in its capacity to combine the Risorgimento and the Greek struggle for emancipation in a single movement for freedom.Less
This chapter assesses the distinctive features of the exiles' Philhellenism as compared to its British and continental versions. It considers the contrasting in attitudes of Italian exiles and British liberals towards Greek and Mediterranean freedom. It argues that while the Italian exiles considered Greece to be a European country ready for independence and representative institutions, and justified any means which would achieve this goal, the Benthamites orientalized Greece, depicted it as a backward Asian country, and believed that it needed to be ‘educated’ before it could become independent. The greatest contribution of the Italian volunteers to European Philhellenism was the notion of Mediterranean sisterhood between Italy and Greece and the idea that underpinned Italian patriotism until the end of the century. The significance heroic martyrdom of Santorre di Santarosa, who became the most famous European Philhellenic icon after Byron, lay precisely in its capacity to combine the Risorgimento and the Greek struggle for emancipation in a single movement for freedom.
Joseph Luzzi
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300123555
- eISBN:
- 9780300151787
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300123555.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This book explores Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, the book examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born ...
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This book explores Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, the book examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination. The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the “world's university” (Goethe) and “mother of arts” (Byron), the influence of Dante's Commedia on Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. The book also provides a critical reevaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic letters, Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni—profoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. The book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural, and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present.Less
This book explores Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, the book examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination. The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the “world's university” (Goethe) and “mother of arts” (Byron), the influence of Dante's Commedia on Romantic autobiography, and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman at home and abroad. The book also provides a critical reevaluation of the three crowns of Italian Romantic letters, Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni—profoundly influential writers largely undiscovered in Anglo-American criticism. The book offers fresh insights into the influence of Italian literary, cultural, and intellectual traditions on the foreign imagination from the Romantic age to the present.
Ralph Pite
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112945
- eISBN:
- 9780191670886
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112945.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, Poetry
In 1819, Thomas Love Peacock observed that Dante had been increasingly included in required readings and this sudden emergence in Dante's popularity he thought may be attributed to the influential ...
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In 1819, Thomas Love Peacock observed that Dante had been increasingly included in required readings and this sudden emergence in Dante's popularity he thought may be attributed to the influential lectures delivered by Coleridge and by Ugo Foscolo's articles in the Edinburgh Review between 1818 and 1819. As such, Dante's Commedia as well as Henry Cary's translation entitled The Vision was promoted, reprinted, and sold well. The advocacies initiated by Coleridge demonstrate how Dante's appeal encompasses more than a single school of political thought. This chapter attempts to explain how Dante's works embodies the various poetic ambitions of several Romantic writers, particularly in terms of combining the truth of nature with imagination.Less
In 1819, Thomas Love Peacock observed that Dante had been increasingly included in required readings and this sudden emergence in Dante's popularity he thought may be attributed to the influential lectures delivered by Coleridge and by Ugo Foscolo's articles in the Edinburgh Review between 1818 and 1819. As such, Dante's Commedia as well as Henry Cary's translation entitled The Vision was promoted, reprinted, and sold well. The advocacies initiated by Coleridge demonstrate how Dante's appeal encompasses more than a single school of political thought. This chapter attempts to explain how Dante's works embodies the various poetic ambitions of several Romantic writers, particularly in terms of combining the truth of nature with imagination.
Konstantina Zanou
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198788706
- eISBN:
- 9780191830785
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198788706.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Chapter 5 explores Ioannis Kapodistrias’s life (1776–1831) in conjunction with a set of other biographies, devoted to his friends and collaborators in the Ionian Islands and Russia during the first ...
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Chapter 5 explores Ioannis Kapodistrias’s life (1776–1831) in conjunction with a set of other biographies, devoted to his friends and collaborators in the Ionian Islands and Russia during the first three decades of the nineteenth century. It explores Kapodistrias’s efforts to learn Greek and Hellenize himself in Russia, his connections to the Ottoman Phanariot environment of St Petersburg, and his meteoric rise in the diplomatic service of the Tsar. The chapter’s aim is to unravel a particular intellectual geography that was formed between Italy, the Ionian Islands, the Ottoman Danubian Principalities, and Russia, and to show the forms of nationalism and proto-liberalism that were fostered, and which creatively combined the empire and the nation. Small nations, for these Ionian proto-liberals, could exist only if protected by great empires.Less
Chapter 5 explores Ioannis Kapodistrias’s life (1776–1831) in conjunction with a set of other biographies, devoted to his friends and collaborators in the Ionian Islands and Russia during the first three decades of the nineteenth century. It explores Kapodistrias’s efforts to learn Greek and Hellenize himself in Russia, his connections to the Ottoman Phanariot environment of St Petersburg, and his meteoric rise in the diplomatic service of the Tsar. The chapter’s aim is to unravel a particular intellectual geography that was formed between Italy, the Ionian Islands, the Ottoman Danubian Principalities, and Russia, and to show the forms of nationalism and proto-liberalism that were fostered, and which creatively combined the empire and the nation. Small nations, for these Ionian proto-liberals, could exist only if protected by great empires.
