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I canzonieri «nazionali» prima dell’unità

2012; Loescher; Volume: 189; Issue: 627 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.gsli.5.129209

0017-0496

Alessandra DI RICCO,

Medieval European Literature and History

This article reconstructs the history and evolution of patriotic poetry anthologies surfacing between 1799 and 1855, i.e. from the end of the Jacobin triennium to the domination of Piedmontese moderates in the process of building the nation-state. The first anthology of this kind was Storno Bolognini’s Raccolta di poesie repubblicane de’ più celebri autori viventi and the last one was La Patria, an unsigned Turinese compilation created under the aegis of Terenzio Mamiani. The study aims primarily to examine the canon defined by the collections of Risorgimento poetry, examining the transformations it underwent and its ties with the Italian literary tradition, in particular with the works contained in the most widely-used school anthologies. Special focus is directed at the various contexts and figures overseeing the creation of the patriotic poetry anthologies and the political overtones evident in them.