Journal title RISORGIMENTO (IL)
Author/s Giacomo Girardi
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/1
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 55-80 File size 201 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISO2016-001003
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This essay is focused on the Pasque veronesi, a city-riot against the French Army (april 1797). This subject, neglected and forgotten for too long, recently has been rediscovered, but only by local historiography. Through a deep investigation of archive documents and books, this essay proposes to definitely link the counter-revolution of Verona and the fall of Venice. The city riot was not as spontaneous as the historiography handed on for long time, but it was organized by the head of the Venetian government that hoped to defeat the French Army, by calling to arms the entire nation. The so-called Pasque veronesi could be the result of an accurate plan, proposed and directed by an intransigent and extremist fringe faction in the Venetian Senate that believed it was useless to maintain the traditional but ineffective neutrality and that gathered the army for fight against the French troops. The myth of a peaceful Venice, deceived by Bonaparte, is here largely reconsidered, focusing the attention on the secret projects set up by Venetian political groups close to the head of power.
Keywords: Counter-revolution, Pasque veronesi, neutrality
Giacomo Girardi, Il mito della neutralità violata. Lotta politica e rivolta in armi nelle Pasque veronesi in "RISORGIMENTO (IL)" 1/2016, pp 55-80, DOI: 10.3280/RISO2016-001003