La guerra rivoluzionaria di Sicilia. Costituzione,controrivoluzione, nazione 1799-1848.

Abstract

From Sicily came the most radical and violent critique of the Bourbon dynasty to repeatedly question not only the legality of the crown, but also its own legitimacy. In the reformist attempt, the day after the congress Vienna, to move from a particular dynastic loyalty to a state one national, the Bourbons found the clear opposition of the island. Moving with ease within the field of forces created from the experiment of the Bourbon administrative monarchy, the ruling classes Islanders will be able to exploit and maximize material resources and symbolic that the new state put at their disposal. The accumulation of this very modern political capital will allow the Sicily to challenge the Bourbons on more and more advanced positions passing from the constitutionalism to nationalism, until the civil war and extinction of the monarchy