In the height of the Crispi age in Italy it was evident to most of the liberal ruling class that the process of building the nation was progressively but inexorably detaching itself from the hopes of the democratic bourgeoisie for a faithful application of liberalism to the management of the real country. Crispi's domestic and foreign policy, in fact, had given the country an attitude towards which many Democrats were critical. Among them stood out the group of the antiprotection league in which the eminent economist Vilfredo Pareto was the protagonist, for whom the "euphoria crispina" was the tangible sign of an attack on the liberty and values of liberalism tout court. How to organize the opposition of the 'real' liberals? The potential of the pacifist ideal to convey liberal and liberal theories - Pareto thought that in 1887 he knew the future Nobel Peace Prize winner Ernesto Teodoro Moneta - was enormous, especially if the contours were well defined and in this, the work of Moneta was precious because it was the result of a sedimented and mature thought. The meeting between these two different souls of democratic liberalism, which can be reconstructed through the documents of the Moneta Archive of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Milan, the Moneta Fund of the Library of Modern and Contemporary History in Rome and the Pareto Fund of the Banca Popolare di Sondrio, gave life to an original insertion of the concept and ideals of pacifism in liberal Italy. In short, "democratic pacifism" was born in Italy which would mark the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the name of continuity with the Risorgimento ideals and which, on the basis of a repudiation of the war often a consequence of the direct experience of combat, had hypothesized the realization of a peaceful system for the resolution of international disputes by studying their implementation tools: disarmament, arbitration, European federation
Nel pieno dell'età crispina in Italia era orma evidente alla gran parte della classe dirigente liberale che il processo di costruzione della nazione si stesse progressivamente ma eìinesorabilmente distaccando dalle le speranze della borghesia democratica di una fedele applicazione del liberalismo alla gestione del paese reale. La politica interna ed estera di Crispi, infatti, aveva conferito al Paese un assetto verso cui molti democratici erano critici. Spiccava tra essi il gruppo della lega antiprotezionista di cui protagonista era l'eminente economista Vilfredo Pareto per il quale l'"euforia crispina" era il segno tangibile di un attentato alla lobertà e ai valori del liberalismo tout court. Come organizzare l'opposizione dei 'veri ' liberali? Il potenziale dell’ideale pacifista per veicolare le teorie liberali e liberiste – pensava Pareto che nel 1887 conobbe il futuro premio Nobel per la pace Ernesto Teodoro Moneta- era enorme, soprattutto se se ne definivano bene i contorni ed in questo, l’opera di Moneta era preziosa perché frutto di un pensiero sedimentato e maturo. L'incontro tra queste due diverse anime del liberalismo democratico, ricostruibile attraverso i docimenti dell'Archivio Moneta del Museo del risorgimento di Milano, del Fondo moneta della Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea di Roma e del fondo Pareto della Banca popolare di Sondrio, diede vita ad un originale inserimento del concetto e degli ideali del pacifismo nell'Italia liberale. Nasceva insomma in Italia quel “pacifismo democratico” che avrebbe marcato il passaggio tra Ottocento e Novecento all’insegna della continuità con gli ideali risorgimentali e che, sulla base di un ripudio della guerra spesso conseguenza dell’esperienza diretta del combattimento, aveva ipotizzato la realizzazione di un sistema pacifico di risoluzione delle controversie internazionali studiandone per giunta gli strumenti di realizzazione: disarmo, arbitrato, federazione europea.
L'idea della pace nell'Italia da costruire. La corrispondenza di Vilfredo Pareto con Ernesto Teodoro Moneta.
CANALE CAMA, Francesca
2014
Abstract
In the height of the Crispi age in Italy it was evident to most of the liberal ruling class that the process of building the nation was progressively but inexorably detaching itself from the hopes of the democratic bourgeoisie for a faithful application of liberalism to the management of the real country. Crispi's domestic and foreign policy, in fact, had given the country an attitude towards which many Democrats were critical. Among them stood out the group of the antiprotection league in which the eminent economist Vilfredo Pareto was the protagonist, for whom the "euphoria crispina" was the tangible sign of an attack on the liberty and values of liberalism tout court. How to organize the opposition of the 'real' liberals? The potential of the pacifist ideal to convey liberal and liberal theories - Pareto thought that in 1887 he knew the future Nobel Peace Prize winner Ernesto Teodoro Moneta - was enormous, especially if the contours were well defined and in this, the work of Moneta was precious because it was the result of a sedimented and mature thought. The meeting between these two different souls of democratic liberalism, which can be reconstructed through the documents of the Moneta Archive of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Milan, the Moneta Fund of the Library of Modern and Contemporary History in Rome and the Pareto Fund of the Banca Popolare di Sondrio, gave life to an original insertion of the concept and ideals of pacifism in liberal Italy. In short, "democratic pacifism" was born in Italy which would mark the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the name of continuity with the Risorgimento ideals and which, on the basis of a repudiation of the war often a consequence of the direct experience of combat, had hypothesized the realization of a peaceful system for the resolution of international disputes by studying their implementation tools: disarmament, arbitration, European federationI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
