Autore
Bertrand, Gilles

Titolo
Carnevali urbani in crisi nell’Italia tra età dei Lumi e rivoluzioni
Periodico
Memoria e ricerca
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 80 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 439 - Pagina finale: 461

To examine the link between carnivals and the crisis of the Ancien Régime, we must take into account their diversity in the 18th century. Although a social elitist dimension was evident in all the capital cities of the Italian peninsula, dominated by opera performances, masked balls, carriage parades or, in Venice, nautical jousting, the Roman model with its horse races and confetti throwing on the Corso seemed to compete with the masquerade in Venice. While strong specificities were expressed in Naples and Milan, signs of wear and tear on the carnival of the elites were evident throughout Italy, particularly in Florence, Parma and Genoa. In all cases, under the Ancien Régime, the people remained spectators or, at best, objects of occasional entertainment for princes and nobles, who for a time in Naples delighted in seeing the lazzaronis seize the food of plenty in the square in front of the Royal Palace. But the revolutionary era changed the situation. Although their success was short-lived, the civic celebrations of the Republican Triennium paved the way for the entire population to become involved in urban rituals. The desire for carnival persisted despite temporary bans on masks. And so, in the first half of the 19th century, parades of carriages, confetti battles, masked balls and opera cycles flourished once again, but with greater participation by the people and under the leadership of the new bourgeois elites. The mistrust of the descendants of the former aristocratic ruling classes towards them showed that the crisis of carnival, if it existed at the turn of the 18th century, was primarily social in nature.



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