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Narrating the crisis and legitimizing the use of emergency legislation: political crime as a premise of the authoritarian state
18-29Views:85During the liberal era, from unification to the rise of fascism, many governments experimented with emergency legislation to control public order or repress the mobilization of opposing political groups. With the approval of the new penal code, political crimes remained an ill-defined offense. Consequently, Crispi and Di Rudinì implemented a state of siege on two separate occasions to condemn any attempt to spread values and principles contrary to the old constitutional foundations of the Albertine Statute.
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The renewal of the ethical-political conception of historical studies
8-13Views:199This essay proposes to analyse aspects and issues of the ethical-political paradigm of historical studies, starting from the teaching of Benedetto Croce in the early twentieth century up to the developments of the Italian historiographical panorama in the twenty-first century.