Università Roma Tre

Week1
Italy as a historiographical question; the roots of Italian nation’s myth
Week2
The Risorgimento’s national myth; the liberal nation; Italian politics between two centuries; teaching the nation: the liberal politics
Week3
Intellectual avant-gardes and modernist nationalism; Giolitti’s Italy
Week4
The Great War; the failure of the liberal State and the rise of fascism
Week5
Fascist Italy; the fascist myth of the nation
Week6
The second world war: death, revival and the fragmentation of the nation
Week7
The Constitution; De Gasperi’s politics
Week8
Economic miracle, center-left governments and the politics in the 60s
Week9
The Republican nation: political parties’ nation; from 1968 to the years of lead (first part)
Week10
From 1968 to the years of lead (second part); towards the end of century: a long crisis
Week11
The debate on the nation between two centuries

The course will take place with lectures and projections

1) Simona Colarizi, Storia del Novecento italiano, BUR Rizzoli, Milano, 2000
2) E. Gentile, Italiani senza padri, Intervista sul Risorgimento, a cura di S. Fiori, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011
3) One book from the following list:
– E. Gentile, Il culto del littorio. La sacralizzazione della politica nell’Italia fascista, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1998
– A. Tarquini, Storia della cultura fascista, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011