20709897 - HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

The course aims to provide the analytical ability to identify the plurality of factors that intervene in the dynamics of historical processes and to grasp their connections; acquire methods and tools of investigation designed to penetrate the complexity of the present time in its historical depth; to form in the understanding of otherness as revealed in the study of human events that constitute the becoming of history.
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Mutuazione: 20709897 STORIA DELL'ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA in Scienze della Comunicazione L-20 R SCORNAJENGHI ANTONIO

Programme

The main lines of Italy’s history from Risorgimento to the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. The module aims to tackle, with a reading of the long run, the most important issues in the history of Italy from Risorgimento to the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. Attention will be devoted to the features of the Italian political system and to the electoral events.

Core Documentation

Alberto M. Banti, Il Risorgimento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004.
Aurelio Lepre e Claudia Petraccone, Storia d'Italia dall'Unità a oggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Antonio Scornajenghi, "Resistere, perseverare e sperare". Il Partito Popolare Italiano e l'Aventino, Roma, Ed. Studium, 2025.

Attendance

Attendance not obligatory but recommended

Type of evaluation

Open-ended questions, but bound by a limited number of lines.The duration of the written test is one hour and a quarter.