Autore
Rao, Anna Maria

Titolo
Repubblicanesimo e idee repubblicane nel Settecento italiano: Giuseppe Maria Galanti fra antico e moderno
Periodico
Studi storici
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 53 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 883 - Pagina finale: 904

Studies of republican ideas in early modern Europe have transformed republicanisminto a historiographical category in which its contents and contexts are not always clear.In general, scholars of republicanism tend to emphasize continuities over changes.Thus, from Machiavelli to the American Revolution, the common characteristics ratherthan the differences between Venice and Holland or between England and the UnitedStates come to the fore. After reviewing a number of historiographical contributionson this theme, this article examines republican ideas in eighteenth-century Italy, inparticular those of one of the most significant thinkers of the Enlightenment andreform in southern Italy, Giuseppe Maria Galanti. In his historical and geographicwritings, there emerges a clear reference to the republican model of pre-Roman Italyand not to that of early modern Italy. Genoa, Venice, and Lucca were for him examplesof closed aristocracies and institutional weakness. Likewise, he would have consideredthe democratic republicanism of the revolutionary period with equal hostility.



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