Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BIbliografia Colonizzazioni interne Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Enlightenment and reform: an overview of culture and politics in Enlightenment Italy Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anna Maria Rao Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Giugno 1, 2005 Zotero Title Enlightenment and reform: an overview of culture and politics in Enlightenment Italy Item Type Journal Article Author Anna Maria Rao URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545710500111280 Volume 10 Issue 2 Pages 142-167 Publication Title Journal of Modern Italian Studies ISSN 1354-571X Date Giugno 1, 2005 DOI 10.1080/13545710500111280 Access Date 2014-10-10 14:12:37 Library Catalog Taylor and Francis+NEJM Abstract Note This essay analyses the influence of the work of Franco Venturi on Italian studies of the eighteenth century over the last fifty years. Venturi's ‘model’ has certainly been of fundamental importance in stimulating new research on the connections between Enlightenment and reform in the eighteenth-century Italian states and is still an essential point of reference for all research in the field. But the direction of eighteenth-century studies in Italy has been shaped also by the contributions of many other scholars. Starting in the 1970s Italian historians became increasingly interested in new questions that were being posed by historians in France and Britain, which contributed to a more general shift away from the biographical focus on individuals characteristic of much of Venturi's work in favour of more collective topics, new types of sources and new ways of interpreting them. This article describes the different themes around which relations between culture and politics in eighteenth-century Italy have been studied, from civil, military and ecclesiastical institutions to the administrative and reform elites, the world of salons and sociability, publishing, religious beliefs, gender differences and science. Short Title Enlightenment and reform Attachment Title Snapshot