Saturday, March 27, 2010 - 18.00 Council Chamber City of Villa Castelli (Brindisi) - Piazza Municipio
Mario Spagnoletti, Professor of History Contemporary Art at the University of Bari, will speak about "Risorgimento and banditry. Commission of Inquiry into banditry and law Pica " .
The Italian Risorgimento continues to lose a priori positive aura for a long time has been reserved. Historians and scholars, based on an immense mass of documents hidden or neglected for many years, giving a more critical evaluation of the facts that led to the unification of Italy. It was noted that the unity that most people have been longing for the result of the expansionist ambitions of Savoy from Piedmont, backed up by multiple interests of the large states that ruled Europe at the time. It turns out that overwhelmingly the people's movement in the South opposed quell'annessione: the political and social banditry.
Spagnoletti says the professor: " In 1931, in an essay published in" Archives for the Neapolitan Provinces ", Gino Doria far too hastily and peremptorily dismissed the robbery southern post-unification as a criminal phenomenon pure and simple, to expunge the most vital history of Italy. It was not until the fall of fascism and World War II because the historiography, especially the more attentive to political and social history, began to devote attention and continuity to the history of post-unification Italian company, giving priority to research more closely related to the analysis of relations between state and civil society and, more specifically, those between the South and the Unitary State ".
Together with the fragile foundations of consensus on which rested the backbone of the new state body, also because of the very restricted suffrage, new studies and excavations archival documentaries was deepened and enriched the knowledge of the meaning that was the contrast between "legal country" and "real country", already denounced by his contemporaries.
It is no coincidence, with reference to the South, that the proper emphasis on the rift between "rulers" and "governed" landed a renewed attention to the problem of banditry, seen as a prism through which to read the history of the southern provinces in the months immediately following the plebiscite.
The violent opposition of the south to the new political and institutional regiments, however, was objectively a vantage point to assess the character of the work of government of the Right history, engaged in a difficult attempt at harmonization of the various sections of the pre-unification Italian states.
The five-year period 1861-1865, coinciding with the season in the southern provinces of the "great robbery," not only can not be extracted from contemporary Italian history, but it is, indeed, a crucial litmus test to evaluate fully the policies failed Winning in the troubled years between unification and will have a relatively long stay in the subsequent national history.
in a situation that seemed to put at risk the drive you just created, the liberal elites reduced substantially the South - before and after the law Pica - a mere "problem of public order", forgetting the admonition cavourriano to impose unity especially through the "moral force".
Cavour's heirs - claims Spagnoletti - use without limit the use of military even more than legal compulsion, creating an emergency legislation that, in addition to stress, paradoxically a sort of "compulsion to freedom," deviated sharply from the rule of law , subjective though it denies the rights guaranteed by the State Government of the Kingdom, then canceled the existing positive law, a negative sign for the future relations between rulers and ruled, between authority and freedom.
After the intervention of Professor Spagnoletti will be screened the documentary "Carmine Crocco - General of the robbers" , produced by Anthony Esposito and Massimo Lunardelli.
