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ToolsGilks, David (2007) Riforma e Rinascimento, Protestantism and Catholicism in Antonio Gramsci's writings on Italian history, 1926–35. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 12 (3). ISSN 1354-571X
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This article readdresses Gramsci's use of Italian history, focusing on his judgement that the Italian Renaissance marked the start of a specifically Italian course of historical failure because it led directly to the Counter-Reformation, the Risorgimento and Fascism. It shows that Gramsci's political strategy after 1923 – on the need for a mass socialist movement – informed his historical opinions. His view of a regressive Renaissance contrasted the dominant historiographical consensus that saw it as the start of European modernity. Gramsci conceptualized modern European history according to a Reformation–Renaissance dichotomy that also determined his general sense of culture. By contrasting Catholic Italy (whose Renaissance had failed to lead to a Reformation) with the Protestant north (whose general Renaissance had formed a harmonious couplet with the Reformation), Gramsci reveals that his single greatest debt as a historian was to Weber rather than Marx or Croce.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2016 12:01 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 00:42 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56389 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13545710701455635 |
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