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Levante. "Archeologi" britannici e percezione dell'antico nell'Impero Ottomano (1840-1860)
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Review of Laura Cerasi 'Gli ateniesi d'Italia. Associazioni di cultura a Firenze nel primo Novecento'
No full text‘A gust of cleansing wind’: Italian archaeology on Rhodes and in Libya in the early years of occupation (1911–1914)
No full textThe essay explores the way in which a European power deals with its colonial
aspirations by legitimizing them, in cultural terms, in part through the specific
prospect of safeguarding the historical and artistic heritage. The military occupation
of Libya and the Dodecanese islands was in fact accompanied, if not preceded, by a
strong ideological tension, aimed at emphasizing the myth of Italy as the cradle of art and civilization. With the issues of civilization and with the idea of European
superiority, the professed Italian right of preserving the history of ‘others’ was
intertwined, thus rescuing it from the ‘barbarism’ of colonized people. By analyzing
mainly sources from archives, in the essay the discourse of ‘civilizing preservation
versus destructive barbarism’ is compared with the immediate aftermath of the
occupation, that is to say, with that complex network of relationships among
individuals, institutions and authorities directly involved in the construction of
the administrative apparatus of dominion. What emerges in this examination is the
destruction of the image of Italy as a civilizing power, produced by the
incompatibility of the positions of archaeologists and scholars, sent by the State to
the occupied lands, with those of the soldiers and colonial officers, concerned in
the conquest and organization of the space: the contradictions and ambiguities of the ideology of preservation are revealed by the opposing interests clashing over the
concrete issue of how to handle and preserve antiquities
Il museo, la storia, la memoria
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Una conversazione con Simona Troilo
di Serena Guarracin
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