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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Van Kley, Dale K.

Titel

FROM THE CATHOLIC ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE RISORGIMENTO: THE EXCHANGE BETWEEN NICOLA SPEDALIERI AND PIETRO TAMBURINI, 1791–1797

Ist Teil von

• Past & present, 2014-08, Vol.224 (224), p.109-162

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Eighteenth-century Italy tends to be a hidden valley in the historiographical landscape, tucked obscurely between the heights of the Italian Renaissance on the one side and the Risorgimento on the other. But recent challenges to the concept of a single secular Enlightenment with its sun in Paris and beams into the peripheries have refracted that Enlightenment into a spectrum of 'lights' in the plural, some of them less secular than the French one. Among the contenders for a place in that spectrum is the notion of a Catholic Enlightenment that, though first formulated in a German context, is enlivening interest in the Italian 18th century. For if the concept of a Catholic Enlightenment ever matched reality anywhere in Europe, it would seem to have been in mid 18th-century Italy, where it enjoyed the patronage of a pope, Benedict XIV, and came to be personified by a priest, Antonio Ludovico Muratori. Here, Van Kley examines the exchange between Nicola Spedalieri and Pietro Tamburini, from the Catholic Englightenment to the Risorgimento.