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Garibaldi sul Gianicolo: Monuments, Memory and the Imperial Legacy of the Risorgimento in Italian Rome

Guimarães Fustagno, Luca
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On September 20th, 1895, the inauguration of the Giuseppe Garibaldi monument brought thousands to the summit of the Janiculum Hill. The date marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Rome’s annexation into Italy and commemorated the “Hero of the Two Worlds” as the pre-eminent symbol of the unified nation. However, despite the monument’s ongoing impact on its surrounding urban landscape, it has been continuously neglected out of dedicated scholarship. When approached, most often constrained by univocal interpretations of its meaning, the monument is said to represent the deep anticlerical nature of the Liberal government that set it in place. This thesis, looking to destabilize misguided historicization and further critical engagement, intends to present how Garibaldi's urban presence is emblematic of and indissociable from the imperialist ambitions that informed pre- and post-unification Italy. Considering Garibaldi as the nation's foremost hero in the nineteenth century, we set out to understand how his figure is manipulated through public commemoration to serve a Liberal agenda. The present research derives its novelty from integrating bodies of literature on nationalism, colonialism, migration, and memory into an art historical analysis of the Risorgimento manifest in Rome.
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Thesis (B.A. in Art History)--John Cabot University, Spring 2024.
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2024
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1807-1882, Monuments
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Guimarães Fustagno, Luca. "Garibaldi sul Gianicolo: Monuments, Memory and the Imperial Legacy of the Risorgimento in Italian Rome". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2024.
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