Date. tra lunghe transizioni e giornate particolari. Appunti sulla periodizzazione della storia d'Italia
In: Il politico: rivista italiana di scienze politiche ; rivista quardrimestrale, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 183-198
ISSN: 0032-325X
The article overviews the main turning points in Italian history according to some recent scholarly works and it the multiple perspectives and conflicting memories marking the very origins of the politically unified peninsula. Matching individual memoirs and perceptions of epochal changes with official institutional dating, "classical" break dates from Liberal and Fascist Ages -- such as 1870, 1915, 1940, 1943 -- are taken into account, as well as the crucial chronology in the building of Republican Italy. Social-economic revolutions as the one of the 1960s and the dramatic events belonging to the 1970s are considered. A structural trend based on long transitions and patterns of public commemoration initiatives and narratives are briefly outlined. Adapted from the source document.