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Chapter 3 - The Risorgimento

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2024

Fernanda Gallo
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter focuses on Italian Hegelians’ interpretations of Machiavelli’s political thought and argues that during the nineteenth-century Italian political language underwent a radical transformation: while the term Risorgimento had generally indicated a specific period of modern history (approximately from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries), by the end of the century that term began to be identified with the Italian struggles for national emancipation. At the same time the word Renaissance began to be used to indicate the period of early modern history between the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries, also identified with the birth of ‘Modernity’. The transformation of the language represents a change of ideas, of the way the intellectual and political leaders of the Risorgimento interpreted the failed religious and moral reformation in early modern Italy and how Machiavelli represents the ‘Italian Luther’.

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Hegel and Italian Political Thought
The Practice of Ideas, 1832–1900
, pp. 109 - 146
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • The Risorgimento
  • Fernanda Gallo, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Hegel and Italian Political Thought
  • Online publication: 11 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009494137.004
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  • The Risorgimento
  • Fernanda Gallo, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Hegel and Italian Political Thought
  • Online publication: 11 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009494137.004
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  • The Risorgimento
  • Fernanda Gallo, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Hegel and Italian Political Thought
  • Online publication: 11 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009494137.004
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