Resumen de La Restaurazione in Italia
The Restoration Age in Italy · In cultural history there are problematic notions either quickly abandoned, or, on the contrary, providing endless analytical response and consequent debate. The Italian Restoration after the Napoleonic Age is such a notion, and, indeed, a pivotal one in the definition and interpretation of Europe’s quickly changing cultural landscape involving aesthetics, symbols, the perception of oneself and others. The new conceptual frame was provided by Romanticism ideologically and esthetically shaping a new idea of Nation in a new idealized conception of history, fitting the needs of centralization, control, homogeneity of the liberal state shaped by the nationalistic trend urged by the rising power of the bourgeoisie.
