Theatres and Politics: Thoughts on the Public Sphere of Resorgimento

Abstract

Resurgence’s historiography was deeply imbibe with political objectives. Since the 70’s, even to take distance from that tradition, they headed toward social history perspective, highlighting the way that it had produced the remoteness of historiography from the process of resurgence as a crucial, political and cultural fact. Later, Banti in his La nozione del Risorgimento takes again that topic. Established certain distance from the clasical resurgence’s theology (the unification as a necessary process), and also from the social-economic approach that had entirely evaded the importance and the efficiency of the national-patriotic speech. All this has a particular weight in Italy, in the beginning of xix cebtury, because of the huge presence of theater ‘place’ in the big and Little centers, in comparisson with a minor quantity of other places of sociability, harder to control by the authorities. A last consideration on the language of opera. Historians of language and historians of book had distinguished the way that the absence of a literary lenguaje in prose, in Italy, had to do with a bigger habit than we supposed, with a poetic complex and grandiloquent language, coming from chivalrous poems.