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Moti del Cilento
The moti cilentani, the 1828 uprising against the Bourbon dynasty in the South-Italian Cilento, has been generally overlooked by the History faculties of established Italian universities in Tuscany and the North. Most scholars that chose to write on the events of 1828 are, in fact, Southern-Italian, and are writing from a Southern-Italian perspective. Interestingly enough, many of these scholars are not currently working at an university. Professors such as Giuseppe Galzerano, Margherita Autuori or Maria Pia Vozzi are teaching at licei classici, secondary schools that specialize in humanities and the study of Latin and Ancient Greek.

This circumstance meant that although there is a surprising breadth of primary resources on 1828 to be found in the State Archives of Salerno, which encompass thousands of pages of court proceedings against the conspirators, hearings and personal correspondences, much of the academic research conducted on the uprising has not been sanctioned by an institution for tertiary education. A notable exception to this are several essays collected during a congress entitled “Forms and Limits of Modernisation: The Italian Mezzogiorno Between the Crisis of the Ancièn Regime and Unity”. Held by the History faculty of the University of Bari in 1985, the congress was aimed at establishing a common narrative describing the process of modernisation of the Reign of the Two Sicilies prior to 1860. As Angelo Massafra explains in the preface to the conference proceedings, the title was given in defiance of the prevailing historiographical narrative that modernisation did not occur until after the arrival of Piedmontese bureaucrats in Southern Italy.

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