Ipotesi su lamartine. Contributo alla storia del "populismo"
Journal title HISTORIA MAGISTRA
Author/s Cristina Cassina
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2012/10
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 15-28 File size 111 KB
DOI 10.3280/HM2012-010003
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Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), removed from history manuals of political thought and confined to literature anthologies, is here discussed in the light of the hypothesis of a possible "resurrection". The battles of the Thirties - in particular the proposal for a politique naturelle, improbable mix of liberalism, Catholicism and democracy - now sound irreparably outdated. Nevertheless, there are reasons to believe that other cues of his public career help to historically understand one of the greatest dilemmas of our times: the populist drifting. The famous speech of 6 October 1848, read in the light of the most recent literature, suggests, in fact, to deem Lamartine not only as a "missing link" within the development of this phenomenon, but perhaps as the real initiator, at least from a theoretical point of view, of modern populism.
Keywords: Populism, bonapartism, romanticism, power and popularity, parliamentary eloquence, The Time of the Prophets.
Cristina Cassina, Ipotesi su lamartine. Contributo alla storia del "populismo" in "HISTORIA MAGISTRA" 10/2012, pp 15-28, DOI: 10.3280/HM2012-010003