IT 1751 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Italian Unification, Antonio Meucci, Papal States

• School: York University
• Department: Italian
• Course: IT 1751
• Professor: John Picchione

Document Summary

Means to rise up again from the point of view of the glorious past of italy, the center of the roman empire, and the political/military conflict it went through. From 1789-napoleon"s defeat by british, napoleon expanded into italy. Leopardi generally partakes in this general view of italy he takes a stand on the social and political state of italy at this time from the enlightenment, we see a fragmentation between the sense of. Romanticism & at same time italy"s political restriction in leopardi"s mind. In this poem, we see a sense of titanism and heroism from italy this makes us rethink the nihilism we have seen from leopardi. Leopardi incites this sense of nationalism and the fighting spirit" by using examples from the past, specifically ancient greece expresses nihilism cause nature can"t deliver on it"s human potential promise freedom, idea of revolut, heroism, and nationhood. Italy becomes a modern state in 1861, coincides with states canada and germany.