challenges to the restored order - Risorgimento

Question 1

What was the purpose of the Risorgimento?

Answer 1

force awareness of a common cultural identity across italy

Question 2

Who were the 18th + 19th Century writers of the Risorgimento?

Answer 2

• Dante wrote of ‘Italia’
• Bettinella coined the term ‘Risorgimento’ in 1775
• small, upperclass audience
• struggle of good vs evil

Question 3

what were the first revolutions of the Risorgimento?

Answer 3

• liberty ideas popularised by French rev
• Italian Jacobins created plots to overthrow gov in Naples and Turin in 1794
• mainly upperclass
• limited ambitions and unity

Question 4

what were the linguistic divisions of the Risorgimento?

Answer 4

• called for an awareness of a common tongue
• peninsula was a combination of Italian variations
• modern Italian came from Tuscan dialect only spoken in Florence –> 1871, 630,000 out of 27m population
• 1871, 2/3 of population illiterate
• journals written in Italian raised consciousness of common culture and language

Question 5

What was the Congressional Degli of Scienziata?

Answer 5

• Congress of Science
• held meetings in between 1839-47
• used Tuscan italian
• provided a place for nationalism to spread

Question 6

How was the opera part of the Risorgimento?

Answer 6

• Verdi’s pieces performed across Italy with clear political messages
• his 1843 opera became associated with anti-Austrian sentiment
• Verdi’s appeal was limited