:Il primo De Gasperi: La formazione di un leader politico
2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 113; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/ahr.113.4.1264
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
ResumoAlcide De Gasperi (1881–1954) is best known as the prime minister of post-fascist Italy from 1945 until 1953. He was responsible for the country's consolidation as a democratic republic, firmly aligned with the West during the Cold War. There is an ample bibliography on his role during these years, as well as on his earlier opposition to fascism as leader of the Italian Popular Party and founder of its successor, the Christian Democratic Party, in the Resistance movement of 1943–1945. The publication of the first of what will be a multivolume critical edition of De Gasperi's political writings and speeches is the basis for Paolo Pombeni's study of his earlier political life in a different state, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. De Gasperi was born in Trentino, one of two Italian areas (the port of Trieste was the other) that remained in the empire after Italian unification. Pombeni insists on the importance of this period for De Gasperi's formation as a politician and identifies the major themes of De Gasperi's political beliefs and public life in imperial Austria. The author's contextualization of De Gasperi's activities offers a valuable analysis of the functional difficulties and ultimate stalemate of the representative political system resulting from the nationalisms that dominated the final decades of the Empire, which he illustrates through the political expression of the reciprocal mistrust between German Tyrol and Italian Trentino.
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