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The Antiquity of the Italian Nation - The Cultural Origins of a Political Myth in Modern Italy, 1796-1943 (Hardcover)
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The Antiquity of the Italian Nation - The Cultural Origins of a Political Myth in Modern Italy, 1796-1943 (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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With Italy under Napoleonic rule at the beginning of the nineteenth
century, the antiquarian topic of anti-romanism became a pillar of
the Italian nation-building process and, in turn, was used against
the dominant French culture. The history of the Italian nation
predating the Roman Empire supported the idea of an Italian
cultural primacy and proved crucial in the creation of modern
Italian nationalism. Towards the end of the nineteenth century,
Italian studies of Roman history would drape a dark veil over the
earliest history of Italy while Fascism openly claimed the legacy
of the Roman Empire. Italic antiquity would, however, remain alive
through all those years, intersecting with the political and
cultural life of modern Italy. In this book, De Francesco examines
the different uses of the constantly reasserted antiquity of the
Italian nation in history, archaeology, palaeoethnology, and
anthropology from the Napoleonic period to the collapse of Fascism.
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