A nation and its faith: the Risorgimento process in the textbooks of Niccolò Rodolico (1922-1941)
This essay offers a reconstruction of the scholastic production for Italian high schools by the well-known historian Rodolico during the ‘ventennio’. It discusses that he was one of the main voices of post-unification Italian nationalism and therefore easily assimilated to the fascist scholastic pro...
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doaj-38f69aa13bab4f07b684c572345f2d872021-03-31T09:42:18ZengUniversity of BolognaDidattica della storia2704-82172021-03-0131S415710.6092/issn.2704-8217/1252910839A nation and its faith: the Risorgimento process in the textbooks of Niccolò Rodolico (1922-1941)Liviana Gazzetta0Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italianoThis essay offers a reconstruction of the scholastic production for Italian high schools by the well-known historian Rodolico during the ‘ventennio’. It discusses that he was one of the main voices of post-unification Italian nationalism and therefore easily assimilated to the fascist scholastic production. A careful analysis, in particular, about the Historical Summary –wich was continuously published from 1923 to 1967- shows that more than a kind of late-liberal nationalism in Rodolico’s manuals there is a Catholic populist nationalism: this Catholic nationalism wich strengthened during the fascist period also in parallel with a series of transformations that the same contemporary Catholicism was experiencing.https://dsrivista.unibo.it/article/view/12529nationrisorgimentocatholicismfaithitalian people |
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A nation and its faith: the Risorgimento process in the textbooks of Niccolò Rodolico (1922-1941) |
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A nation and its faith: the Risorgimento process in the textbooks of Niccolò Rodolico (1922-1941) |
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A nation and its faith: the Risorgimento process in the textbooks of Niccolò Rodolico (1922-1941) |
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University of Bologna |
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Didattica della storia |
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This essay offers a reconstruction of the scholastic production for Italian high schools by the well-known historian Rodolico during the ‘ventennio’. It discusses that he was one of the main voices of post-unification Italian nationalism and therefore easily assimilated to the fascist scholastic production. A careful analysis, in particular, about the Historical Summary –wich was continuously published from 1923 to 1967- shows that more than a kind of late-liberal nationalism in Rodolico’s manuals there is a Catholic populist nationalism: this Catholic nationalism wich strengthened during the fascist period also in parallel with a series of transformations that the same contemporary Catholicism was experiencing. |
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