20706067 - STORIA DEL RISORGIMENTO

Across the critical analysis of a specific subject, that varies every year, the course will guide the students to understand the long process of a national conscience’s formation from the Jacobin Republics (end of XVIII) to the first World War, through the examination of the diffusion of the new ideas, the cultural, social and political changes in the moment of passage from the pre Unitarian States to the Unitarian State and the new Reign’s principal problems. It will confront sources’ reading, historiographical debates, using the research’s tools.

Curriculum

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Programme

The women's Risorgimento
Inside a general framework of the events and debates, the course will analyse the important contribution made by women to the diffusion of ideals and the politic process of the Risorgimento, especially through the biographies of significant female figures. The main historiographical debates related to the role and presence of women in the construction of a united Italy will be recalled, and space will be given to reading and commenting on documents, in order to initiate students to the critical approach to literature and sources.

Core Documentation

1) Source dossier provided by the teacher through the online bulletin board.
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) Donne del Risorgimento, a cura di ELENA DONI, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
The Italianistica students can replace the book in point 3) with the following:
MARIA TERESA MORI, Figlie d’Italia. Poetesse patriote nel Risorgimento (1821-1861), Roma, Carocci, 2011.


Reference Bibliography

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

Type of delivery of the course

We will try to make students acquire the ability to read and critically interpret historical essays and to deepen its historiographical debates, in order to provide them with methodological expertise to independently develop their own research paths, scientifically analysing the sources and the relative historiography. There will then be held methodological lessons and practical research exercises, discussion of the historiography and use of tools and aids.

Attendance

Attendance is optional, but it is strongly recommended for the seminar method of the course, which involves the active participation of students.

Type of evaluation

A final oral exam is scheduled, but during the lessons there will be methods to assess the profit through the interaction between teacher and students and the elaboration and presentation in class of a paper.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

The women's Risorgimento
Inside a general framework of the events and debates, the course will analyse the important contribution made by women to the diffusion of ideals and the politic process of the Risorgimento, especially through the biographies of significant female figures. The main historiographical debates related to the role and presence of women in the construction of a united Italy will be recalled, and space will be given to reading and commenting on documents, in order to initiate students to the critical approach to literature and sources.

Core Documentation

1) Source dossier provided by the teacher through the online bulletin board.
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) Donne del Risorgimento, a cura di ELENA DONI, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
The Italianistica students can replace the book in point 3) with the following:
MARIA TERESA MORI, Figlie d’Italia. Poetesse patriote nel Risorgimento (1821-1861), Roma, Carocci, 2011.


Reference Bibliography

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

Type of delivery of the course

We will try to make students acquire the ability to read and critically interpret historical essays and to deepen its historiographical debates, in order to provide them with methodological expertise to independently develop their own research paths, scientifically analysing the sources and the relative historiography. There will then be held methodological lessons and practical research exercises, discussion of the historiography and use of tools and aids.

Attendance

Attendance is optional, but it is strongly recommended for the seminar method of the course, which involves the active participation of students.

Type of evaluation

A final oral exam is scheduled, but during the lessons there will be methods to assess the profit through the interaction between teacher and students and the elaboration and presentation in class of a paper.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

The women's Risorgimento
Inside a general framework of the events and debates, the course will analyse the important contribution made by women to the diffusion of ideals and the politic process of the Risorgimento, especially through the biographies of significant female figures. The main historiographical debates related to the role and presence of women in the construction of a united Italy will be recalled, and space will be given to reading and commenting on documents, in order to initiate students to the critical approach to literature and sources.

Core Documentation

1) Source dossier provided by the teacher through the online bulletin board.
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) Donne del Risorgimento, a cura di ELENA DONI, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
The Italianistica students can replace the book in point 3) with the following:
MARIA TERESA MORI, Figlie d’Italia. Poetesse patriote nel Risorgimento (1821-1861), Roma, Carocci, 2011.


Reference Bibliography

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

Type of delivery of the course

We will try to make students acquire the ability to read and critically interpret historical essays and to deepen its historiographical debates, in order to provide them with methodological expertise to independently develop their own research paths, scientifically analysing the sources and the relative historiography. There will then be held methodological lessons and practical research exercises, discussion of the historiography and use of tools and aids.

Attendance

Attendance is optional, but it is strongly recommended for the seminar method of the course, which involves the active participation of students.

Type of evaluation

A final oral exam is scheduled, but during the lessons there will be methods to assess the profit through the interaction between teacher and students and the elaboration and presentation in class of a paper.