Citation

Bertoni A. Studi e Problemi di Critica Testuale 2015; 91(2): 126-136.

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(Copyright © 2015)

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Abstract

The First World War had a tremendous impact both on the individual biography of Angelo Fortunato Formiggini (who will eventually commit suicide as a consequence of the Fascist racial laws) and on Modena as a whole : the age-long customs and traditions of the city's 100,000 inhabitants were deeply upset by the conflict. Formiggini's Modena was a secular and civilised city, it had its own university, and it was still mindful of its past as the capital the Este-Habsburg Duchy. In the field of the humanities, the city was the home of a vibrant scholarly community which was particularly active in the areas of history, classical studies, linguistics, folklore, and archival research. The members of this community saw themselves as the heirs of a tradition that could be traced back to Muratori, but did not disdained to be involved in a petty-bourgeois, unpretentious, and dialect-speaking social environment. © Copyright 2015 by Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa Roma.

Language: en