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From Subaltern Experience to Political Tradition: Telling and Knowing Revolutionary Martyrs in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1848–1860

par Delpu, Pierre-Marie
Editeur scientifique Beyen, Marnix;Lauwers, Karen;Suodenjoki, Sami
Référence From Subaltern Experience to Political Tradition: Telling and Knowing Revolutionary Martyrs in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1848–1860, Routledge, Londres, Vol. Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Between Loyalty and Resistance, Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Between Loyalty and Resistance
Publication Publié, 2023-06-09

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Résumé :

In the mid-nineteenth century, the societies of the Italian peninsula saw a significant increase in the number of cults honoring political martyrs, nourished by the many revolts and revolutions repressed by the monarchical powers. In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, where this practice was particularly developed, a local tradition of revolutionary martyrdom took place, based on local experiences of suffering first transmitted at local scale. By cross-examining police and judicial documentation, the political literature produced by the liberal movement, and the published martyrologies, this chapter sheds light on how, starting from a collection of subordinate experiences, a written memory of martyrdom was formalized and intended to nourish subsequent political movements. Three main stages are observed: first, the emergence of a popular and local memory of political martyrdom in the 1840s; second, its progressive recovery by the revolutionary elites of the kingdom at the time of the 1848 revolution; finally, the multiple ways in which the written tradition of southern European martyrdom was constituted through the experiences of exile which many Neapolitan liberals went through.