HISTORY OF MODERN SICILY

To provide knowledge and understanding of Sicilian history in the early modern period (c.XVI-c.XIX).To provide knowledge and understanding of a diversity of topics, historiographical approaches, methods and theories associated with Sicilian modern history.To prepare the student for independent research.

The program will be structured be lectures and in-depth seminars. The focus will be History of Sicily between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It will also provides r the establishment of working groups and holding of seminars.

History of Sicily between XVI and XIX centuries.

Depth study of the following issues:

- Dynaties and History of Royal Houses

- Origins and development of the Southern Question and the Concepts of Meridionalism

- The role of women in Sicilian society during early modern age

- Grand Tour

Storia della Sicilia a cura di Benigno e Giarrizzo.

Monographic Readings

A. De Francesco, La palla al piede. Una storia del giudizio antimeridionale,Milano, Feltrinelli, 2012; E. Frasca, La scoperta dell’antico nel Grand Tour in Sicilia (secoliXVIII-XIX), in S. Raffaele (a cura di),Il sapore dell’antico. Regia Custodia, Grand Tour...e altro nella Sicilia del Sette-Ottocento,Catania, Cuecm, 2007, pp. 87-129 integrato con M. D'Amore, The Royal Society and the discovery of Two Sicilies: Southern Routes in Grand Tour, London- New York, Palgrave 2017; C.Recca, Sentimenti e politica. Il Diario inedito della regina Maria Carolina di Napoli, Milano FrancoAngeli, 2014; L.Scalisi. Per riparar l'incendio. Le politiche dell'emergenza dal Perù al Mediterraneo, Catania, Domenico Sanfilippo Editore, 2013.