The two faces of Daniele Manin. French republican celebrity and Italian monarchic icon (1848–1880)

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ID21137600
AuthorsGian Luca Fruci (University of Pisa, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume18
Issue2
Pages157-171
Publication date2013-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1354571x.2012.753012
OpenAlexW2072207734
LanguageEN
References cited8

Owing to its profile of (inter)national political process with a global audience, the Italian Risorgimento represents an extraordinary laboratory for the ‘great media transformation’, or the ‘graphic revolution’, which pervades Europe in the nineteenth century and as a consequence, it is a privileged experimental field of celebrity politics. Through a plural set of printed and iconographic sources, the article analyses the mediatisation and peopolisation process which involves the figure of Daniele Manin, the president of the Republic of Venice of 1848, dying in exile in Paris in 1857, and the romantic adventures of his ‘martyr family’. In particular, the aim of this contribution is firstly to study the construction of Manin’s double face: the Frenchified or French republican celebrity and the Italian monarchic icon. Secondly, it highlights the tensions of the transnational media dynamics which involve an appropriation by the French imaginary and a re-discovery by the Italian imaginary, specifically focusing on the revealing episode of the Franco-Italian monument to Manin inaugurated in Turin on March 1861

Adventure · Art · Art history · Humanities · Icon · Martyr · Plural · Political science · Politics · The Imaginary · Classics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy

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