Rivista scaricabile gratuitamente 1-2019
Storia e politica : rivista quadrimestrale: XI, 1, 2019
Maria Sofia Corciulo
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
IL CLERO “COSTITUZIONALE” DEL PARLAMENTO NAPOLETANO (1820-1821)
(THE “CONSTITUTIONAL” CLERGY OF THE NEAPOLITAIN PARLIAMENT (1820-21)
Keywords: Kingdom of Two Sicilies, Constitution 1820, Parliament, Clergy.
Six voluminous books about the activity of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies (1820-21) were printed between 1926 and 1931 under the auspices of the Commission of the Lincei Academy for the publication of the proceedings of the Italian Constitutional Assemblies. That is why it is surprising that till today the members of that Parliament have never been the subject of relevant prosopographical studies in the socio-institutional perspective. In this context, it is particularly interesting to look at the deputies coming from the clergy that I defined “constitutional” because of their political commitment in supporting the liberal and democratic principles transposed in the new Constitution.
Patrizia De Salvo
Università degli Studi di Messina
IL CLERO SICILIANO TRA RIGORE RELIGIOSO E CREDO RIVOLUZIONARIO (1820-1821)
(THE SICILIAN CLERGY BETWEEN RELIGIOUS RIGOR AND REVOLUTIONARY BELIEF 1820-1821)
Keywords: Sicily, clergy, insurrections 1820-21, Risorgimento.
The essay wants to highlight the role of the Sicilian clergy who contributed to the civil and political conscience formation of the Sicilian people in the first half of the 19th century, attending 1820-21 Risorgimento’s movements.
Enza Pelleriti
Università degli Studi di Messina
GLI ESULI SICILIANI IN FRANCIA TRA STATO E CHIESA (1848-1860)
THE SICILIAN EXileS IN FRANCE BETWEEN STATE AND CHURCH (1848-1860)
Keywords: 1848, Sicilian exiles, France, autonomist cultures, Italian unification
The paper analyses the story of the Sicilian exiles after the failure of the 1848 revolution. In particular, it focused on the repeated stays in France of Sicilian political “emigrants”. Furthermore, starting from some exemplary figures of exiles, it studied their social origin and their repositioning with reference to their original autonomist and independence choices towards the Italian unification.
Claudia Giurintano
Università degli Studi di Palermo
(GIOACCHINO VENTURA AND NAPOLEON III: «LA RÉSURRECTION DE L’EMPIRE COMME CELLE DU JOUR DE PÂQUES» (1857-1859)
Keywords: Gioacchino Ventura, Napoleon III, Second Empire, Caesarism.
Starting from the observation of Luigi Sturzo who interpreted Gioacchino Ventura’s French period as a phase of involution of his political thought, this essay examines Ventura’s reflections on the 2 December coup d’état. In order to understand the reasons that pushed the Sicilian Theatine to exalt, after the enthusiastic adherence to the ideals of ‘48, the Second Empire as a consecration of a divine plan aimed to preserving the sovereignty, to support the Church, and to reject the advance of a democracy opened to socialist demands, the analysis will focus on the political judgments expressed in the preaches of 1857 held in the imperial chapel of the Tuileries.
Rosamaria Alibrandi
Università degli Studi di Messina
(FREEDOM OF EDUCATION AS FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE. THE POLITICAL THEORY OF VITO D’ONDES REGGIO ECHOING NATURAL LAW AND POSITIVISM IN THE 1860s)
Keywords: Vito d’Ondes Reggio, Domenico Berti, Camillo Cavour, Pio IX, Italian Unity, State-Church relationship.
The paper aims to examine the parliamentary role of a distinguished jurist, the Sicilian Baron Vito D’Ondes Reggio (Palermo 1811 – Florence, 1885), during the process of unification. From 1861, he fiercely opposed the policy of centralization implemented by Cavour. At the same time, he defended the interests of the Catholic Church against the ecclesiastical legislation of liberal governments and fought to maintain the Pope’s sovereign rights, prerogatives, and inviolability. In 1866, as a representative of an uncompromising Catholic social movement, D’Ondes Reggio began his parliamentary battle against the State monopoly of education, and decided to submit a legislative proposal to implement freedom of education. He submitted a bill on this matter to the Chamber of Deputies on December 14th, 1868. The political steps taken by the Savoy monarchy, culminating in the annexation of the Papal State to the Kingdom of Italy, prompted his resignation as a Member of Parliament.
Vittoria Calabrò
Università degli Studi di Messina
(FRENCH INFLUENCES IN TEXT BOOKS AND TEACHING PROGRAMMES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY SICILIAN UNIVERSITIES)
Keywords: Universities, Sicily, Text books and programmes, XIX century, French influences.
The article focuses on French influences in text books and teaching programmes in nineteenth-century Sicilian Universities. The paper is divided into three parts in which attention is focused on: methods for defining programmes and choosing text books according to the discipline introduced in Sicily after 1816; influences exercised by French authors on Sicilian teachers; the role played by some members of the clergy in that delicate context.