A different Resistance. The Italians against French invasion, 1796-1806
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https://doi.org/10.69791/rahc.237Keywords:
«insorgenze», peasants, French, Calabria, misery, hunger, clergyAbstract
The article tries to offer a synthetic vision of the resistance —in Italy called «insorgenze»— to the French during the decade 1796-1806. First of all a review is given of the different historiographic theories, and the Author shows the inconsistency of the one insisting on a centrally organized and co-ordinated movement, as the uprising were all on local basis and without previous consent, mainly provoked by the violences and robberies of the French troops.
A short chronicle of the different events shows the difference between the 1796-1799 period, and the following years, when the Italian political structure undergoes a radical change, with the birth of the Kingdom of Italy.
The Autor emphasizes also the difference between the riots in the centre-south of the Italian peninsula and the ones in the north, stressing moreover how what happened in Calabria must be considered a real war, plainly waged along a class conflict scheme.
Lastly the article lays out the resistance’s motivations, concluding that they were mainly based on the peasants’ fear of the novelties on one hand, and in the other on the deep economical crisis and the true estate of misery suffered by the rural populations.
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Copyright (c) 2009 Vittorio Scotti Douglas
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