The promised land

Biblical themes in the Risorgimento

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12547823
AutoresFrancesca Sofia (University of Bologna, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume17
Fascículo5
Páginas574-586
Data de publicação2012-11-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1354571x.2012.718563
OpenAlexW2011020055
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas5

As was the case in the rest of Europe, in Italy too from the 1830s writers defined themselves as a cast and trasformed their words and writings into a principle of collective identification. They did so by drawing on their religious tradition, although they transformed radically its meaning in order to make their religious belief the common denominator of their collective identity. This article, by comparing the writings of the Catholic Vincenzo Gioberti and the Jewish David Levi, demonstrates the affinities of their reflections, not so much with regards to the specific content of their civil religion, but rather to the morphology of the nation as they conceived it. Both inspired by Saint-Simon's doctrine, they imagine the nation as a religious community, considered the men of letter its natural priests, and employed the Bible to define its content

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