Federico Ferretti
Geographies of Federalism during the Italian Risorgimento, 17961900
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Federico Ferretti
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-96116-9 e-ISBN 978-3-030-96117-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96117-6
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Ferretti pushes the debate about the radical-democratic strands in Italian Unification (the Risorgimento) beyond the usual oppositions -republicanism v. socialism, centralism v. federalism - to consider how much the contentions of the time extended to consideration of authoritarianism, militarism, and colonialism rather than just administrative arrangements per se. In taking a fundamentally geographical approach to the debate, Ferretti not only provides a new perspective on the radical impulses in the Risorgimento but also contributes to the contemporary rethinking of nation-statehood, territorial sovereignty, and the possibilities of transnational federalism. Perhaps most importantly, this book shows that the form which Italian unification took was never a foregone conclusion. There is a broader lesson here.
John Agnew, Professor of Geography, University of California Los Angeles, USA
This monograph was long overdue. Supported by an outstanding research, Ferrettis highly topical publication successfully challenges dominant historiography on the outcome of the struggle for the Italian unification. It brings back to light the alternative ideas of nation promoted by federalist radicals during the Risorgimento, uncovering their anti-authoritarian and anti-colonial inspiration and their long-lasting influence on the subsequent development of libertarian and socialist thought. This groundbreaking work opens the door to a wide range of new paths of research on the history of Risorgimento and of nationalism more in general.
Pietro di Paola, Modern History, Lincoln University, UK
Acknowledgments
I would first like to thank all those who shared with me tasty anecdotes on Risorgimentos and Internationals survivals in the memory of popular radicalism in Italy, especially Gianandrea Ferrari and the regretted Elio Lor Secchiari (19332009), together with all the past and present goers of the FAI Malatesta Circle, located in such a magic place like Gragnana, where some of the stories that I tell in this book appear always living in popular songs and tales. I also thank historians and archivists of anarchism and early radicalism with whom I had fruitful conversations and exchanges of documents, especially Massimo Ortalli, Gianpiero Landi, Fiamma Chessa, Claudio Mazzolani, Franco Schirone and Giorgio Sacchetti. For inspiring conversations on these matters, special thanks to my Ireland-based friends Davide Turcato and Jos Antonio Gutirrez and to Gaetano Bucci. I am also ideally indebted to two regretted scholars, Marc Vuilleumier (19302021), for his amazing anecdotes on the International, and Renato Risaliti (19352020). While alas, I did not have the time to meet personally this latter, his published translations of some previously lost Lev Menikovs recollections helped me in my work on the Tuscan Connection. Great thanks to all the archivists who helped me to access collections in pandemic times, and especially Alessandra Pierattini (Forteguerriana Library), Maddalena Taglioli (Domus Mazziniana), Fabrizio Alberti (Central Museum of Risorgimento), Katia Cestelli and Silvia Nerucci (Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati) among several others whose names I could not note. Last but not least, many thanks to the anonymous referees for Palgrave Macmillan for their precious insights to improve my text, and to the editors Lucy Kidwell and Supraja Ganesh for their help and kindness during the editorial process.
Archives and Acronyms
ItalyASF
Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Prefettura del Dipartimento Fiorentino (Archivio Segreto 18571864).
BCA
Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dellArchiginnasio, Gabinetto dei Manoscritti, Saffi Papers; Book Collection.
BNCF
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Gabinetto Vieusseux; Periodicals Reading Room.
BSG
Pistoia, Biblioteca San Giorgio, Book Collections.
CLR
Ravenna, Biblioteca Classense, Lucio Gambi Collection.
DM
Pisa, Domus Mazziniana, Dolfi Collection; Ghisleri Collection.
FGM
Pistoia, Biblioteca Forteguerriana, Giuseppe Mazzoni Collection.
MCRR
Rome, Museo Centrale del Risorgimento, Correspondence Folders.
MRGB
Bologna, Museo del Risorgimento, Book Collection.
MRM
Milan, Museo del Risorgimento, Cattaneo, Ferrari and Ghisleri Collections.
SBI
Siena, Biblioteca degli Intronati, Periodicals.
SwitzerlandAEN
Neuchtel, Archives de lEtat de Neuchtel, Angelo Umilt Collection; University Archives, Dossiers des Professeurs.
BGE
Geneva, Bibliothque de Genve, Manuscripts; Book Collection.
BPUN
Neuchtel, Bibliothque publique et universitaire de Neuchtel, Fonds de la Socit de Gographie; Book collections.
ZZH
Zrich, Zentralbibliothek, Handschriftenabteilung, Gustav Vogt Papers.
NetherlandsIISH
Amsterdam, International Institute of Social History; Fabbri Papers.
FranceBNF
Bibliothque Nationale de France, Dpartement des Manuscrits Occidentaux, Nouvelles Acquisitions Franaises.
RussiaGARF
Moscow, State Archive of the Russian Federation [Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii], fondy P-6753, Nadjejda Vladimirovna Konceskaja.
Main Journal Collections
NE
LaNuovaEuropa (Florence 186163).
LG
Libert e Giustizia (Naples 1867).