Governing Consensus
The Political Use of Knowledge in Italy
edited by Giulia Delogu, Alessandro Bonvini, Cecilia Carnino and Daniele Di Bartolomeo
Paperback (Published)
(October 2025)
ISBN: 9791257010423
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How were political scenarios opened up by the revolutionary era navigated? This volume investigates how expertise emerged as a vital political resource in the Italian peninsula between 1789 and 1870, a time of revolution and institutional upheaval. Moving beyond the familiar categories of charisma and celebrity, it explores the political role of knowledge by focusing on places of education, media events, agents and texts. Framing Italy as a laboratory of early modern politics, this volume examines how the reworking of traditional knowledge and the rise of new forms of expertise enabled individuals to act effectively in the public sphere, influence society and navigate the shifting landscape of power, ultimately governing consensus and securing lasting authority.
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- Giulia Delogu, Alessandro Bonvini,Cecilia Carnino, Daniele Di Bartolomeo, Introduction
- Giulio Talini, ""Complete and Unrestricted Freedom of Trade""?: Political Economy, Experts and the Science of Government in the 1791 Competition of the Accademia dei Georgofili
- Elisa Baccini, From Revolutionary Magician to Government-Funded Inventor: The Milanese Life of a Self-Proclaimed Astronomer
- Valentina De Santi, Measuring Theatres of War and Uniforming Space in the Napoleonic Era: The Cartographic Projects of Simon Pierre Brossier, Ingenieur Geographe
- Paolo Conte, Knowledge Beyond Borders: The Case of Italian Doctors in Napoleonic France
- Marcello Dinacci, The Faces of Power: Imagery as a Consensus-Building Tool
- Marco Emanuele Omes, Health and Numbers: Smallpox Vaccination as Governmental Knowledge in Post-Napoleonic Italy
- Emilio Scaramuzza, From the Newspaper L'Alba to the Rise of the Kingdom of Italy: Giuseppe La Farina Between Criticism, Political Reflection and Government Practice (1847-1861)
- Giacomo Girardi, The Construction of Memory: Napoleon's Lives and Italy's History During the Restoration 107
- Maria Stella Chiaruttini, A Bank Made in the Image and Likeness of Italians: The Role of Competent Politicians Between Theory, Practice and Risorgimento Rhetoric
- Claudia Bussolino, Language Policies in Italian Universities: Retracing the Casati Law
- Francesco Guarino**, A ""Library"" for the New State: Attilio Brunialti and the Biblioteca di scienze politiche
- Contributors
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- Edited by Alessandro Bonvini
- Edited by Cecilia Carnino
- Edited by Giulia Delogu
- Edited by Daniele Di Bartolomeo
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Political Objects in the Age of Revolutions
Material Culture, National Identities, Political Practices
Volume 21
A Description of All Spain
De situ, longitudine, forma et divisione totius Hispaniae libellus
Volume 5
Marriages and Alliance
Dissolution, Continuity and Strength of Kinship (ca. 1750-ca. 1900)
Volume 13
Gorbachev, Italian Communism and Human Rights
Rethinking Political Culture at the End of the Cold War
Volume 24
Moving Around in Town
Practices, Pathways and Contexts of Intra-Urban Mobility from 1600 to the Present Day
Volume 15
Mediterranean Crossings
Sexual Transgressions in Islam and Christianity (10th-18th Centuries)
Volume 18
Union in Separation
Diasporic Groups and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean (1100-1800)
Volume 1
Disciplined Dissent
Strategies of Non-Confrontational Protest in Europe from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century
Volume 4
