Abstract
Owing to its profile of an (inter)national political process with a global audience, the Italian Risorgimento represents an extraordinary ‘laboratory’ for the ‘great media transformation’, or the ‘graphic revolution’, which pervaded Europe in the nineteenth century, and, as a consequence, is a privileged experimental field of celebrity politics. Through a plural set of printed and iconographic sources, this article analyses the mediatization and peopolization process involving the figure of Daniele Manin, President of the Republic of Venice of 1848, dying in exile in Paris in 1857, and the romantic adventures of his ‘martyr family’. In particular, the aim of this contribution is, first, to study the construction of Manin's double face: the Frenchified or French republican celebrity and the Italian monarchic icon. Second, the article highlights the tensions of the transnational media dynamics, which involve an appropriation by the French imaginary and a rediscovery by the Italian imaginary, specifically focusing on the the Franco-Italian monument to Manin inaugurated in Turin in March 1861.
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