Ardigò, Roberto (1828–1920)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Urbinati
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Naturalistic Philosophy ◽  
Italian Politics

Roberto Ardigò was the most prominent Italian philosopher of the nineteenth century. A priest and an academic, he was subjected to an ecclesiastical trial for his naturalistic philosophy and dismissed from the priesthood. Ardigò symbolized secularism and the conflict between the liberal state and the Roman Church, which marked Italian politics and culture from the Risorgimento to the end of the century. A positivist philosopher, he advocated an empirical and materialistic explanation of all phenomena and revived Renaissance humanism and naturalism.

Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Cove
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Sydney Owenson ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Italian Politics ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Italian Unification

The nineteenth-century Italian Risorgimento, or ‘resurgence’, re-drew Europe’s map to create a new nation-state: Italy. Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture argues that the Risorgimento radically shaped nineteenth-century British political, literary and cultural landscapes. Crossing borders, political divides and genres, this study examines the intersections of literary works by Mary Shelley, Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson), Giovanni Ruffini, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others with journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain’s imaginative investment in this seismic geopolitical realignment. This book explores four political focal points of British engagement with Italian unification, moving between two crucial turning points that shaped Europe’s geopolitical map, the 1815 Congress of Vienna and 1861 creation of the Kingdom of Italy, to excavate the unsettling fusion of political optimism and disaffection produced through the collision of British and Italian politics and culture. British and Anglo-Italian responses to the Risorgimento reveal a complicated, decades-long print contest that played out across high literary modes, pamphlets and propaganda, memoirs and travelogues, parliamentary debates, journalism and emerging genres like sensation fiction. This study argues that forging a new state demands both making and unmaking; as the Risorgimento re-mapped Europe’s geopolitical reality, it also reframed how the British saw themselves, their politics and their place within Europe. These chapters demonstrate that the nation-building enterprise of Risorgimento culture was a participatory, international field crossing borders, print forms, political parties and literary genres, which played an invigorating role for British political discourse and print culture.

scholarly journals French influence in Serbia 1835-1914 four generations of “Parisians”

Balcanica ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 93-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusan Batakovic
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Development ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Political Principles ◽  
First World

The members of four generations of the national elite known as ?Parisians? played a prominent role in the political development of modern Serbia. Liberals, Progressives, Radicals and Independent Radicals profoundly shaped the process of espousing and pursuing modern political principles and values in nineteenth-century Serbia. Implementing and creatively adapting French models and doctrines, the ?Parisians? largely contributed to the democratization and Europeanization of Serbia and the eminent place the French influence had in her politics and culture before the First World War.

Dissent from Mt. Ventoux: Between Christian and Secular Humanism in Petrarch’s de Ascensu Montis Ventosi

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-96
Author(s):  
Erik Z. D. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
Renaissance Studies ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Petrarch’s letter de Ascensu Montis Ventosi has long served as the founding document of “renaissance humanism”. Since thebeginning of renaissance studies in the mid-nineteenth century, the letter has become almost a talisman for summoning the new, secular spirit of humanism that spontaneously arrived in Italy in the fourteenth century, took hold of the hearts and minds of Europeans in the fifteenth century, and led to cataclysmic cultural, religious, and political changes in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This reading, still common among non-specialists, especially in the English-speaking world, is overly simplistic and ignores Petrarch’s profound debt to classical and Christian tradition, obscuring the fundamentally religious character of the letter. This article examines how scholars came to assign the letter so much importance and offers an interpretation that stresses Petrarch’s continuity with tradition and his desire to revitalize rather than reinvent the traditions of Christian scholarship and contemplation.

Competing Claims on the Legacies of Renaissance Humanism in Histories of Philology

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-222
Author(s):  
Denis J.J. Robichaud
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Contribution

This paper examines a facet in the long history of Italian Renaissance humanism: how later historians of philology understood Renaissance humanists. These later reconsiderations framed the legacies of Italian Renaissance humanism, at times by asking whether the primary contribution of humanism was philosophical or philological. Philologists–especially from nineteenth-century Germany in the generations before Voigt and Burckhardt–wrote about Renaissance humanists by employing prosopography and bio-bibliographic models. Rather than studying humanists and their works for their own merits, the authors of these histories sought to legitimize their own disciplinary identities by recognizing them as intellectual ancestors. Their writings, in turn, helped lay the foundation for later scholarship on Italian Renaissance humanism and defined, in particular, how later twentieth-century historians of philology and scholarship understood the Italian Renaissance.

The Mentelles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph Paul Runyon
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American History ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Early American History ◽  
Early American ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Feeling At Home

Drawing on newly translated materials and previously overlooked primary sources, Randolph Paul Runyon explores the life and times of the Mentelles in this intriguing dual biography. He illustrates how the couple's origins and education gave them access to the higher strata of Bluegrass society even as their views on religion, politics, and culture kept them from feeling at home in America. They were intimates of statesman Henry Clay, and one of their daughters married into the Clay family, but like other immigrant families in the region, they struggled to survive. Through the years, they often reinvented themselves out of necessity. Their most famous venture was Mentelle's for Young Ladies, an intellectually rigorous school that attracted students from around the region and greatly influenced its most well-known pupil, Mary Todd Lincoln. Runyon reveals the Mentelles as eloquent chroniclers of crucial moments in Ohio and Kentucky history from the turn of the nineteenth century to the eve of the Civil War. They rankled at the baleful influence of conservative religion on the local college, the influence of whiskey on the local population, and the scandal of slavery in the land of liberty. This study sheds new light on a remarkable pair who not only bore witness to key events in early American history but also had a singular impact on the lives of their friends, their students, and members of their community.

scholarly journals Myths and Lessons of Liberal Intervention: the British Campaign for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade to Brazil

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
John MacMillan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Target State ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Atlantic Slave Trade ◽  
Normative Factors ◽  
Cultural Constraints

This article takes issue with recent references to the British nineteenth century campaign for the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to Brazil that serve to bolster interventionist or imperialist agendas. In particular, such accounts reproduce two and a half myths about the campaign: that it can serve as a model for the present age; that the success of the campaign can be explained through the actions of the intervening party alone (with a corresponding neglect of those of the ‘target’ state); and the half-myth that the campaign’s success was due to military action (at the expense of institutional (legal) and normative factors and the capacity of the target state). I argue instead that this case – and interventions more generally – would benefit from an analysis that considers the role of force in relation to a series of residual institutional and cultural constraints within the liberal state and to political conditions in the target state. In light of the complexities and contingencies that these factors present the underlying lesson is that military force should be used sparingly, if at all.

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