Success of far-right Brothers of Italy raises fears of fascist revival

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[–]Rakean93Identitarian socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In Italy the category of Catholic Reformation was cancelled a few years ago. That's mainly because it's considered an apologetic term from the Jedin's school, and also because Massimo Firpo, the most important scholar in the field, personally hates it. Other terms like "early modern catholicism" are also despised because they're linked to the anglosaxon historiography, which is reguarded to be too much neutral about the role of the Church. About the anti-imperialist role of the inquisition, isn't even new: you can find some early references in "Gui, La Riforma nei circoli nobiliari, Cinquant'anni di storiografia italiana sulla riforma, Claudiana, Torino, pp. 115-116".

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It's interesting that Massimo Firpo and Francesco Gui still support these approaches, in light of a much greater trend in academia to offer global courses that address early modern European expansion/imperialist ambitions and the associated post-colonial concerns. I recall that Luigi Firpo's work is still used in early modern syllabi reading lists. I had also thought M. Firpo and F. Gui had retired, or were close to retirement.

Trends in approaches to European expansion are currently led by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and similar scholars who've provided alternative assessments to the traditional Eurocentric global history. To see for example Goa initially (1510-1640) as the "Rome of the East" is one of those Jesuit proposals that agreed with Portuguese interests to trade with India, and 16th century HRE interests to exploit the New World, African and Eastern territories for goods and materials. These developments are traditionally read as imperialist, though I would think financial interests were much more important than we might read in Jesuit discourses or in developments of statecraft. Not that I have much to say about any of this, but I'll think more about this anti-imperialist role that you mention, as this may help refocus (or the new word: re-hyphenate) attention away from traditional imperialist arguments.