Tak by David Armando, research director at the Institute for the History of Philosophy and Science in Modern Age of the National Research Council (ISPF-CNR) of Naples and 2024-2025 research-fellow at the Paris IAS (FIAS program), as part of the international conference Rottura o continuità? Lo Stato Pontificio a confronto con l’Europa delle restaurazioni (1800-1850) (Rupture or continuity? The Papal States compared with Restoration Europe (1800-1850)) organized by the Fondazione Camillo Caetani on May 27-28, 2025.

Event open to the public.
Conference in Italian.

Presentation

It is now well known that the Restoration era has been the subject of a thorough historiographical revision, particularly in the wake of the 2015 bicentenary. A significant part of the literature perhaps intends to go beyond the dialectical vision of nineteenth-century history, seeking instead to rediscover the continuity of a century that, at least outwardly, was marked by numerous points of rupture and turning points. Thus, by moving beyond ideological approaches that have made “shock” the center of historical evolution, we could re-establish a karstic perspective of continuous processes that, precisely from discontinuities, would have concretized transformations that were probably already latent in civil, social, cultural, economic and political imaginaries.

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