La guerra del ricordo. Nazione italiana e patria napoletana nella memorialistica meridionale (1860-1903)

A war of memory. The Italian nation and Neapolitan patriotism in southern memoirs (1860-1903)
This article employs forty-five volumes of memoirs, written by Italian nationalists or Bourbon loyalists, all Southerners, between 1860 and 1903. The aim is to discuss the profile and the level of politicization of elites who fought in the southern conflict, the relationship between traditional forms of belonging and national projects, as well as the way individual and collective choices have been represented. Through a re-elaborated version of the past, this study examines the struggle to develop opposed national projects and feelings and the perception of the civil war that fragmented the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In so doing, it also addresses the ongoing debate on state-formation in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic area and on the situation in the Bourbon territories.

Parole chiave: Cuerra civile, Memoria, Nazionalismi, Mezzogiorno d’Italia, Unità d’Italia
Keywords: Civil War, Memory, Nationalism, Southern Italy, Italian Unification