The study investigates certain strategies of political legitimation of the Neapolitan Bourbon monarchy in the Restoration period from a twofold perspective. On the one hand, through the polemical texts of Antonio Capece Minutolo, Prince of Canosa, a leading exponent of Italian reaction at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. He combined the claim to a restructuring of the cetual fences typical of the ancien regime with the evocation of an absolutist type of monarchy, the pinnacle of the social ladder and absolutely immune to the restrictions imposed by a rising liberalism. On the other hand, it is the voice of monarchy itself that is echoed here. That is, the image of the regime's culture spread through the powerful theatre machine of the San Carlo. Thus, librettos of operas and occasion cantatas will be analysed in order to enucleate a symbolic content inherent to the figure of the monarch and his power: this will be revealed in all its specificity with respect to both the 18th-century past and the romantic future. Finally, the clear heterogeneity of the two ‘discourses’ on the monarchy will be shown, reconfirming the view of the Restoration as a period of reflection on the power of kings that was by no means uniform or responding to a common project, but rather as a laboratory of dissimilar and often contradictory thoughts.
Lo studio indaga alcune strategie di legittimazione politica della monarchia borbonica napoletana nel periodo della Restaurazione, nella fattispecie in una duplice prospettiva. Da un lato, tramite i testi polemici di Antonio Capece Minutolo, principe di Canosa, esponente di spicco della reazione italiana a cavallo tra i secoli XVIII e XIX. Questi univa alla pretesa di una ristrutturazione degli steccati cetuali tipici dell'antico regime, la rievocazione di una monarchia di tipo assolutistico, culmine della scala sociale e assolutamente immune alle restrizioni imposte da un liberalismo montante. Dall'altro lato, è la voce della monarchia stessa quella che trova eco. Ovverossia, l'immagine della cultura di regime diffusa tramite la potente macchina teatrale del San Carlo. Verranno dunque analizzati libretti di opere e cantate d'occasione per enuclearne un contenuto simbolico inerente alla figura del monarca e del suo potere: esso si rivelerà in tutta la sua specificità rispetto tanto al passato settecentesco quanto al futuro romantico. Infine verrà mostrata la chiara eterogeneità dei due "discorsi" sulla monarchia, riconfermando la visione della Restaurazione come di un periodo di riflessione sul potere dei re niente affatto uniforme o rispondete a un progetto comune, bensì come laboratorio di pensieri dissimili e spesso contraddittori.
Retoriche della controrivoluzione. La restaurazione borbonica a Napoli (1815) tra polemiche reazionarie e rappresentazioni teatrali
LA GUARDIA, IVAN
2024/2025
Abstract
The study investigates certain strategies of political legitimation of the Neapolitan Bourbon monarchy in the Restoration period from a twofold perspective. On the one hand, through the polemical texts of Antonio Capece Minutolo, Prince of Canosa, a leading exponent of Italian reaction at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. He combined the claim to a restructuring of the cetual fences typical of the ancien regime with the evocation of an absolutist type of monarchy, the pinnacle of the social ladder and absolutely immune to the restrictions imposed by a rising liberalism. On the other hand, it is the voice of monarchy itself that is echoed here. That is, the image of the regime's culture spread through the powerful theatre machine of the San Carlo. Thus, librettos of operas and occasion cantatas will be analysed in order to enucleate a symbolic content inherent to the figure of the monarch and his power: this will be revealed in all its specificity with respect to both the 18th-century past and the romantic future. Finally, the clear heterogeneity of the two ‘discourses’ on the monarchy will be shown, reconfirming the view of the Restoration as a period of reflection on the power of kings that was by no means uniform or responding to a common project, but rather as a laboratory of dissimilar and often contradictory thoughts.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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