The course aims to introduce students to the analysis of a well-defined historical moment and to start them to the concrete application of the concepts and procedures of historical research through the guided or individual discussion of documents and historiographical issues relevant. The knowledge of historiographical theories and documentary research techniques are essential training elements for the exercise of teacher professionalism and the construction of laboratories together with students.

The first unitary fifteen years, known as the age of the historical Right, placed the ruling class of the new state a series of tests of great magnitude. The first, of course, was to "invent" a state to complete and complete the revolutionary transition that in the years 1859-1861 had led to Unity. If the antiquity of the Italian nation was an acquired fact, the idea that it was represented by a unitary container and capable of embodying it after a story founded on fragmentation was a great challenge. The course will focus on five major issues:

1) Inventing a State: proclaimed Victor Emmanuel II King of Italy, it was necessary to face the difficult challenge of building a State that included different political traditions and largely little or no practical constitutional arrangements. 

2) The Italians: a nation to be consolidated. Who were the citizens of the new state? How did the ruling class largely composed of personalities who had taken part directly in the transition 1859-1861 perceive them? What could be done to strengthen the national bond to which the founding factor of Unity was called?

3) Italy and Europe: the new State aspired to be one of the great powers of Europe and thus to get rid of the heavy protection of Bonapartist France. This was one of the factors that, along with the desire for the completion of national unity, prompted the right to accept the alliance with Prussia to wage war on Austria in 1866. 

4) Centre and periphery: the administrative structure to be given to the nascent state was one of the first nodes that the ruling class was called to dissolve. The centralist choice was taken with the conviction that it was a temporary passage aimed at harmonizing a precarious organism in order to stabilize it. 

5) Southern Italy: the integration of the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, that is to say the larger pre-unification state, represented the most difficult test for the new Kingdom and for the ruling class that led it. It was a confrontation that generated a war, known as brigandage, complex and traversed by various fractures.

Knowledge and understanding: Acquiring an in-depth knowledge of a very precise moment in contemporary history

Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to deal with a study of contemporary history at a monographic level and to rework it in a personal written form.

Autonomy of judgment: Acquire the ability to interpret themes and problems presented to the course by interacting the outcome of the study with data and information of the daily experience and use and public role of history.

Communication skills: Ability to collect and process data and to explain in an orderly manner the concepts learned, with language as appropriate as possible in an original written paper (tesina).

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Frontal lesson with multimedia instruments

Attendance

The individual study of the indicated texts and the written work (paper) on a subject agreed with the teacher are obligatory

Course books

F. Cammarano, Storia dell'Italia liberale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011, pp. 3-74; 

C. Satto, «Un leone alla catena corta». Bettino Ricasoli politico nell'Italia unita 1861-18880), Firenze, Le Monnier, 2019.

Assessment

The exam will consist in the preparation of a paper (tesina) on one or more aspects considered during the course. The starting point for the drafting of the paper will be the books above, to which will be added the documents and/ or books agreed with the teacher. The final assessment will be expressed in thirtieths.

In the oral interview during the exam will be discussed the paper, to be sent to the teacher at least a week before.

The evaluation criteria are as follows: ability to argue; adequacy of the disciplinary language used; ability to apply the acquired knowledges to a critical interpretation of contemporaneity.

Disabilità e DSA

Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.

A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.

Teaching

Non-attending students are requested to contact the teacher at least one month before the exam to agree on the topic of the paper.

Attendance

The individual study of the indicated texts and the written work (paper) on a subject agreed with the teacher are obligatory

Course books

F. Cammarano, Storia dell'Italia liberale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011, pp. 3-74; 

C. Satto, «Un leone alla catena corta». Bettino Ricasoli politico nell'Italia unita 1861-18880), Firenze, Le Monnier, 2019.

Assessment

The exam will consist in the preparation of a paper on one or more aspects considered during the course. The starting point for the drafting of the paper will be the books above, to which will be added the documents and/ or books agreed with the teacher. The final assessment will be expressed in thirtieths.

In the oral interview during the exam will be discussed the paper, to be sent to the teacher at least a week before.

The evaluation criteria are as follows: ability to argue; adequacy of the disciplinary language used; ability to apply the acquired knowledges to a critical interpretation of contemporaneity.

Disabilità e DSA

Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.

A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.