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Political Crime. A Transnational History of Nineteenth-Century Italy

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Nov 18 2026

11:00 - 12:30 CET

Sala del Consiglio, Villa Salviati - Castle

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Lecture in the framework of the History Department Monthly Research Meetings
Who was a political convict? When did political imprisonment acquire an international dimension? Focusing on the states of the Italian peninsula as a paradigmatic case, this talk examines the reconceptualisation of political crime in the nineteenth century and the international and transnational role of political convicts. While historians have debated the legal and normative dimensions of political crime, the transnational relationship between repression, activism, and humanitarian debate has remained largely overlooked, partly owing to the assumption that political imprisonment became an international concern only in the twentieth century. Challenging this view, the talk investigates how a liberal representation of political crime took shape during the Restoration and argues that political prisoners acted as transnational agents, contributing to the internationalisation of revolutionary ideas and to early humanitarian approaches to political imprisonment. Register

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