Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy

Ceserani, Giovanna

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1427457

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2009

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1427457

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Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy

Giovanna Ceserani¹

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“…Greek culture derives from a nobler and more ancient Italic civilization. 25 pitfalls of lying to the many. 36 Double-speak is necessary, Maréchal argues, to ensure that Rousseau's distinction between 'de l'homme et des hommes' is maintained.…”

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Narrating Revolutionary Failure in Sylvain Maréchal and Vincenzo Cuoco: The Legend of Pythagoras

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Early Modern French Studies

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It is commonly assumed that the Terror marked the end of revolutionary experiments with antiquity. Sources from antiquity however remained powerful conceptual tools, especially for those revolutionaries seeking to examine the Revolution's failure and imagine alternative political futures. This article is a comparative study of Sylvain Maréchal's Voyages de Pythagore (1798) and Vincenzo Cuoco's Platone in Italia (1806). Both writers turned to antique sources in order to analyse how the Revolution could be corrected and performed again. Their search for indigenous sources of revolution and reflections on agency and voice would prove influential for subsequent revolutionary theories, including those of anarchism and 'passive revolution'.Keywords: French Revolution, antiquity, Pythagoras, indigenous liberties, anarchism, passive revolution, Sylvain Maréchal, Vincenzo Cuoco, agency, voice.The problem of assessing the revolutionary uses of antiquity has long been recognized.References to antiquity abound in the works of the major philosophes and constituted a major component of the educational background of many revolutionaries. The goût antique, prominent since the mid eighteenth century, left a lasting imprint on institutional nomenclature, festivals, theatre and art of the revolutionary period. As is well known, this revival of antiquity reached a peak following the deposition of the King in 1792 and the subsequent establishment of France's First Republic.

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Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy

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Narrating Revolutionary Failure in Sylvain Maréchal and Vincenzo Cuoco: The Legend of Pythagoras

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