Autore
Ferrari, Carlo

Titolo
Scienza tedesca e Medioevo latino negli scritti di Augusto Gaudenzi
Periodico
Studi storici
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 663 - Pagina finale: 694

Augusto Gaudenzi was one of the most significant Italian historians of the early Middle Ages between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of his works, particularly those dedicated to the edicts of Theoderic and Athalaric, the activity of Cassiodorus in Ravenna, and the relations between the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire, remain valuable due to their meticulous analysis of ancient sources – especially legal texts – following the principles of German philological scholarship. However, Gaudenzi’s work was not unaffected by the ideological debates that were then shaping the intellectual elites of the Kingdom of Italy, which sought to reinforce the Risorgimento thesis of an early Italian identity by arguing that the barbarian invasions did not disrupt the continuity of Roman law. This served both to strengthen national unity in a still fragile State and to justify the conquest of the Papal States, as well as the transfer of the capital to Rome.



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