Rassegna storica del Risorgimento

Vita dell'Istituto
173
In the absenee of Benjamin Brown who wns ìn Italy the Executive Secretary-Treasnrer read a brief summàry, provi ded by Mr. Brown, of the Annual Congress of the History of the Risorgimento. A full report will be presented in the next Newsletter. The occasion was- the centenary of the " Breccia di Porta Pia ".
The meeting was very well attended and extremely well planned and handled. It openend with an impreasjve ceremony at the Salone degli Orazi e Cariassi in the Campidoglio. The remainder of the sessione were held at the Palazzo Braschi, qnite filtingly in the hall which served for many yeara as the office of the Prime Minister. Meeting as we did on the centenury of Porta Pia, the particJpants gave their papera on varions aspects of the joining of Rome to the Kingdom. Severa) of the " interventi " brought forti qnite ìnteresting inlortnation which is wórth e Ring. albeit en passoni, in the report for the Newsletter. As additional programs the dele­gate were taken On a tonr of the section of the walls which ha just been opened for the public and nlso on a tonr of the Museo del Risorgimento in the Vittoriano. And a special word must he said for the estreme kindness and vitality of Professor Ghi sai berti and Morelli.
John A. Thayer read the report of the Prize Award and Cttation Committee. The 200.00 prize for the beat nnpnblished essay or dissertation in the field of Itali an hi story by a yoong srholar waa award ed to Clara M. Loveli {or her dissertation on Carlo Cattaneo and the Politica of the Risorgimento 1820-1860 ". The prize money was again made avallatile to otir Society by a generons gift frora the America-Italy Society, through the good office* of its Executive Director, Hedy Giusti-Lanham. Mr. Thayer then announeed that the Citation for Distinguished AcHevement was awarded to Hans Baron for bis work in Renaissance History.
John Tedeschi, as a one-man nominatine committee, placed the name of William Bowsky in nomination for elcction to the Advisory CounciL There were no further nomination and Mr. Bowsky was elected unanimously.
Presidenl Gilbert raised the questi on of our Society sponsoring a symposium in. the nature of the first one held in 1969, on the early modem period of Italian history. He thought it would be possible to bave the Institute for dvanced Study, Princeton, art as host for the occasion. The 300th anniversary of Muratori's birth, which will take place in 1972, could be a starting point for a more general program involving Italian history of the 17ih and 18th centuries, relati ng the Italian to the wider European Enlightenment.
A discnssion followed and a variety of suggestione for a program emerged. Shepard B. Clough remafked that most of the papera to be presented should rome from American scholars, altbough invited foreign scholars sbould not be excluded. He also suggested that arrangement should be made in advance for financing the publication of the papera. The sense of the discussione was to authorize the officerà of the Society to pursue the question further.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:05 p.m. .
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PARIGI. Le 17 octobre 1870, Garibaldi arriva à Dole, soua-préfceture du département du Jnra, qn'il avnit choiale pour arcneillir le quartìer general des Corps Franca, groupés sona le nom d'Armée des Vosges, dont Gambetta, chef de la Déiégation dn Gouvernement de la Défense Nationale à Tours, lui avait ronfiò Iè rommandement.
Cent ans pina tard, le 17 octobre 1970, la ville de Dola a commemora la vcnue en se mura du Chef glorìoux des Cbemisea Rouges; pour rappeler l'évènement, un pierre a été dreasée avee une inscription, en bordure d'une dos placea au sud de la c(é. En fin de matinée, sona un del enucleine, un groupe de Garihaldiens, anciens combattants de la Première Guerre Mondiale verni uvee leur drapeau, inaugura le