Urban Spectacle in Republican Milan - Pubbliche Feste At the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Lombardy and its capital Milan lived through a season of intense social and political change, especially in the passage between Austrian Monarchy and Napoleonic republics (1796-1799, and 1800-1802). While affecting cultural production on all levels, this passage occasioned a significant change in terms of public celebration, with republican festivals and other celebratory occasions coming from revolutionary France being reframed amongst Milanese specificities. After establishing a solid historical and aesthetic background to Lombardy in this delicate period, to the revolutionary models and to the Milanese substrate, this Element aims at reconstructing and describing the main features of the French republican festivals in Milan, and their impact on the city's landscape, soundscape and self-representation. It will also conclude by offering some reflections on these events' consequences on the following century's patriotism/nationalism and cultural production, reinstating them as an interesting, albeit forgotten case study.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Republican festivals in northern Italy: historical and ideological background; 2. The festivals and the city; Epilogue; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandra Palidda, Alessandra (Oxford Brookes University) Palidda
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781108986779
• ISBN: 978-1-108-98677-9
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Music and the City
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Music, History: specific events & topics, France, MUSIC / History & Criticism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, PERFORMING ARTS / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Italy, Milan, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Holidays & seasonal interest, History of Music, Revolutionary groups & movements, Revolutionary groups and movements, Pageants, parades, festivals, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions