Memorie storiche della deportazione del canonico Telesforo Galli
Author(s)
De Santi Gentili, Elisabetta
Date Issued
February 5, 2010
Type
Doctoral Thesis
Abstract
The introductory chapters of this thesis work outline the travel history, looking at the experiences of the collective heritage, closely linked to mobility, through various ages. Heroes travels were examined searching knowledge and new horizons to be discovered and the relative pilgrimage originated from Adam and Eva atonement travel the purpose of which is them faults purification, in order to face the soul pilgrimage aimed to reward who is doing it, through the Saint Places knowledge.
During XI and XII century the profane culture blooms and also the cultural travels, towards universities and the knowledge centres, but also the merchant’s travels towards the Far East, spices and wonders kingdom. Initials Atlantic and African explorations allow to open then new spices market ways, but also to convert new people to the Christian faith. In the XVI century, starts the modern concept of travel: English aristocratic young people or scions of the rich bourgeois class, will cross the Alps, accompanied by a tutor, to travel through Italy, to observe personally about the places they have read on the books. Fundamental will be the baconian text Of Travel, (year 1597), which will define the traveller rules, giving them useful suggestions to prepare and face the travel. Old continental streets start to be populated by young foreigners, now not English only but also French and German, but soon they will prefer the Oriental or Indian charm or the other exotic destinations.At the Grand Tour age, travel finally becomes a time of pleasure, with the archaeological discoveries around the half of the XVIII century, the itinerary will enrich of new stages in the southern of Italy. In the XIX century born the modern tourist: in 1841 Thomas Cook will organise pleasure travels first of all for the working class, then for the richest people. Finally, geographical expeditions for study, will find wide prominence in specialised magazines. Brothers Treves publications were taken into consideration. In Chapter 3, instead, was taken into consideration a manuscript kept at the Vallicelliana library of Rome.
It is a notebook that encloses the historical memories of Canon Telesforo Galli deportation, it took place between June 1810 and April 1814, due to the non-oath of allegiance to Napoleon. Galli retraces in his Memories the memorable years between 1808 and 1814, when the French Government took hostilely possession of Rome and it usurped unjustly the Church State Government , deporting Pope Pius VII, the legitimate sovereign, first in Savona and then in France. The way to write is very synthetic, names, dates, and places come one after the other, leaving small space for the landscape images evocation, but is equally interesting to follow him into this diaspora that will lead him first as deportee and then as prisoner to Piacenza, Alessandria, Genova and, finally, in Bastia and Corsica’s prisons, where he will remain until the liberation. Sometimes the manuscript presents soul pilgrimage characteristics, here, unlike the medieval traveller, who goes to holy places for reward himself, deportation protagonists make detention places a destination of many benefactors to which are dedicated these memories, rewarded by the faith of these courageous. When everything seems to be concluded in the best way, during the return journey a dramatic storm starts, which puts again in danger the protagonist life and his companions; it will conclude with a short quarantine in the arrival port and the return to Rome, where Galli will assist the Pius VII triumphant return.
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