Prophetic Times: Visions of Emancipation in the History of Italy

ISBN-13: 9781009233187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str.

New Jersey) Viroli Maurizio (Princeton University

Opis

Provides the visions of social emancipation that we need.

Spis treści

Part I. From Dante to the Republic of Prophets: 1. Prophets and poets; 2. Savonarola's republican prophecy; 3. Prophetic Machiavelli; 4. The republic of the prophets (1527–1530); Part II. The Decline of Prophecy and Italy's Bondage: 5. The domination over consciences; 6. Prophets of self-denial; 7. Prophecy, reason of state and utopia; 8. Reverberations of bygone prophetic times; 9. Prophets are impostors or fools; 10. The revolution of the philosophers and the counterrevolution of the prophets; Part III. The Prophetic Voices of the Risorgimento and the Antifascist Resistance: 11. The times of prophets; 12. Prophetic poets; 13. Giuseppe Mazzini and his prophetic legacy; 14. The autumn of the Risorgimento and the birth of the Republic.