Educare il popolo, tra innovazione e tradizione, in un Dipartimento della Repubblica romana (1798-1799)

• Autores: Alberto Stramaccioni
• Localización: Nuova rivista storica, ISSN 0029-6236, Vol. 104, Nº. 3, 2020, págs. 1171-1194
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The author examines the experience of the so-called Roman Republic, whichwitnessed an attempt to transform what had previously been part of the PapalStates, and thus a theocratic entity, into a democratic state, following the model ofthe French Revolution. The main thrust of that attempt was the construction of arepublican Religion that was meant to replace the Catholic one.

    Based on the archival documents and on contemporary publications the authorargues that in the Department of the Trasimene there emerged a very special republicanschooling, bent on spreading the values of the Nation as well as the principlesof the Constitution, and on the insistence on terms such as democracy, liberty, equalitywith the aim of building a modern political culture.

    What was unique according to the Author was the way in which this new religionwas publicized. Whereas the contents of the regime’s propaganda was clearlyentirely new, the forms in which it was couched, in terms of words, rites, symbolsand gestures were largely drawn or inspired by the same Catholic experience, preciselyin the search for that very same popular legitimacy the Catholic Church hadbeen so able to command.This republican pedagogical rhetorical discourse was, in any case, able to initiatein the Papal States, as well as elsewhere, the formation of an Italian nationalcharacter, which, after a long and tortuous evolution during the period of the Risorgimento,would bring about the creation of a unified Nation-State