Final appointment, Saturday 6 July 2013, Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi memory with "Remembering the Roman Republic (9 February-3 July 1849)", the cycle of conferences conceived by Mara Minasi and Giuseppe Monsagrati to offer food for thought on some of the most significant aspects of the republican experience of 1849 which was an extraordinary political laboratory on the road to national unity.
Giuseppe Monsagrati, professor of the history of the Risorgimento and author of numerous essays on the Roman Republic, he will deepen the theme of the Constitution of 1849 which represented above all an act of faith in the formative capacity for future generations of what had happened in Rome between 9 February (proclamation of the Republic) and on July 3, 1849 (promulgation of the republican constitution at the very moment in which the French sent to restore the temporal power of the pope entered the city). Developed and drafted in a few weeks of work by the jurists elected to the Constituent Assembly, despite its derivation from the French models, the charter had its own peculiar originality consisting in the affirmation of the sovereignty of the people as the only source of power, in its assembly character, in the recognition of the secularism of the republican State and in a series of articles on the rights and duties of citizens aimed at protecting the individual and at the same time considering him as a responsible member of a community; also interesting is the dictation on the rights of the municipalities, whose terms of autonomy from the central power were in any case made compatible with the affirmation of the primacy of the nation. A concise and mature text at the forefront of the entire European panorama of the time.
The conference will take place on the day of the anniversary of the death of Goffredo Mameli, the cantor of united Italy, wounded not far from Porta S. Pancrazio during the defense of Rome in 1849 and who died, after more than a month, in the ambulance of the Trinità dei Pellegrini for the complications that arose from the wound sustained in the battle of 3 June. His loss thus coincided, even symbolically, with the end of the experience of the Roman Republic whose spirit continued to live precisely in the highly advanced text of the Constitution which inspired the drafting of the Italian Constitution a century later.
Joseph Monsagrati, former professor of History of the Risorgimento at the Sapienza University of Rome, is a member of the Scientific Council of the Domus Mazziniana of Pisa and of the Presidential Council of the Institute for the History of the Risorgimento of Rome. He is currently a contract professor of History of the formation of national states at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Roma3
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