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). To 18th Century: Traditional Italy: local allegiances, identities campanalismo: attachment to one’s own bell tower (campana 19 th C. Risorgimento, Unification of Italy 20 th C. Fascism, World War II. Population of Rome Augustus 1,000,000 5-6 th C. 35,000 1500 55,000 -60,000
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) To 18th Century: Traditional Italy: local allegiances, identitiescampanalismo: attachment to one’s own bell tower (campana19 th C. Risorgimento, Unification of Italy20th C. Fascism, World War II
Population of Rome Augustus 1,000,000 5-6th C. 35,000 1500 55,000 -60,000 1530 32,000 1560 50,000 1600 100,000 1870 200,000
19th Century Italy RISORGIMENTO ( “Resurgence”) AND NATIONALISMNAPOLEON’S INVASION OF ITALY 1796-1814reaction against French Empire becomes spur to nationalist movements in Italy and Germany
PIEDMONT-SAVOY center of unificationCentral figures in Italian unification: • MAZZINI, Giuseppe 1805-1872 nationalist revolutionary (from Genoa, studied law) Young Italy: organization of young republicans • GARIBALDI, Giuseppe 1807-1882 military leader of guerilla forces • CAVOUR, Count Camillo 1810-1861 minister to King of Piedmont-Savoy 1858 pact with Napoleon III of France 1859 war with Austria
Giuseppe Mazzini1805-1872 Italian nationalist revolutionary and republican
MAZZINI, Giuseppe 1805-1872 founder of CARBONARI: secret nationalist society name taken from mine workers, “underground” society1848 ROMAN REPUBLICestablished by Mazzini during European Revolutions of 1848suppressed by French army under Napoleon III
Giuseppe Garibaldi
GARIBALDI, Giuseppe 1807-1882 leader of irregular military forces “red shirts” 1849 defense of Janiculum Hill in aftermath of Mazzini’s Roman Republicslogan “ROMA O MORTE” (Rome or death) 1860 invasion of Sicily, marches north to Naples
Count CamilloCAVOUR, 1810-1861 minister to King of Piedmont-Savoy architect of Italian unification
CAVOUR, Count Camillo 1810-1861 minister to King of Piedmont-Savoy1858 pact with Napoleon III of France1859 war with Hapsburg Austriawhich had occupied northern Italy (Milan) since 16th century1860 GARIBALDI invades Sicily, then Naples troops - “red shirts”CAVOUR army marches south, conquest of Tuscany
1860 Italian State in orange
1861 KINGDOM OF ITALY united under VICTOR EMMANUEL II Capitals of united Italy (moving south):1861 Turino - capital of Piedmont Savoy 1865 Florence 1870 Rome:ROMA CAPITALE, TERZA ROMA
1861 Italian State in orange
1870-1929 POPES self-declared “prisoners of the Vatican”withdraw to Vatican City to protest conquest of Papal StatesPapacy excommunicates all members of new legislaturesource of strong anti-clericalism in Italian politics
WORLD WAR I Italy on Allied side post war issues: terms of treaty, war costs, anti-communism1917 Russian Revolution: result of WWI, first communist state 1921 Italian Communist Party founded by Antonio Gramsci split off from Italian Socialist Party
ITALIAN FASCISM – theme of exaggerated nationalismBENITO MUSSOLINI 1883-1944 Editor of Socialist newspaper AVANTI 1919 fascio di combattimento (armed political group)Roman fasces as new political symbol 1920 FASCIST PARTY: militants called squadristi = “black shirts”
1922 MARCH ON ROME (echoes of Ceasar's crossing Rubicon) King makes Mussolini Prime Minister1924 murder of MATTEOTTI Socialist deputy by Fascist squadristiMovie: IL Delitto Matteotti 1929 LATERAN TREATY with Pope recognition of Vatican State
FASCIST IDEOLOGY: DUCISMO: cult of the leader (Il Duce) corporative state, eliminate class conflictmilitarism:un bambino un soldato (one baby = one soldier)
Posterwith Mussolini as head ofcorporative state
The many Faces of Mussolini
One heart only One will only One decision only
FOREIGN POLICY: Mussolini’s Roman Empire 1935 invasion of Ethiopia 1938 Spanish Civil War 1939 pact with Hitler forming the Axis AXIS POWERS in World War II: German and Italy 1943-44 Allied invasion of Italy from south
1983 Neo fascistposter of Mussolinias “man of the people”