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City and Nation in the Italian Unification : The National Festivals of Dante Alighieri / Mahnaz Yousefzadeh.
- Title
- City and Nation in the Italian Unification : The National Festivals of Dante Alighieri / Mahnaz Yousefzadeh.
- Author
- Yousefzadeh, Mahnaz
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ©2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ4362.A65 F69 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 253 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This book narrates the first national celebration of united Italy, the Sixth Centenary of Dante Alighieri in May 1865. Denominated alternatively as a national, European, and secular festa, the affair materialized as an eclectic Italian monument with extraordinary political, social and cultural significance. The Centenary was a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian identity emerged, one based on a Florentine cultural nationalism that opposed the Savoyard territorial nationalism. An stunningly popular event celebrated throughout Italian civil society, the festa was conceived, organized, and strategically promoted from a municipal center, the city of Florence. Its Florentine organizers successfully wrote the story of the Centenary as a parable of the Florentine son, Dante, who fathered the Italian nation as well as king Victor Emmanuel himself"--
- Series Statement
- Italian and Italian American Studies
- Uniform Title
- Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Subject
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 > Anniversaries, etc
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
- National characteristics, Italian > History
- Group identity > Italy > History
- Anniversaries
- Group identity
- National characteristics, Italian
- Florence (Italy) > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1.The Dante Centenary and the Centenary's Dante -- 2.The City Organizes the Nation: The Structures of the Centenary -- 3."Carnevalino" or "Cold Official Discourse": The Program of the Festa -- 4.Inclusion and Exclusion: The Logic of Participation -- 5.The New Civic Vanguards: The Press and Public Opinion -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780230108646 (hardback)
- 0230108644 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2010042327
- OCLC
- 669751256
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library