Andrea Lombardi. Un intellettuale meridionale e il mito degli Italici nell’Italia del Risorgimentale

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The paper deals with Andrea Lombardi, a “bourgeois” of the Regno delle Due Sicilie born in 1785 in Basilicata, to whom we owe a series of researches on pre-Roman remains belonging to the ancient Italic tribe of the Lucanians. Lombardi’s analysis of several monumental defensive walls of the Lucanian oppida, appeared in the years 1830 and 1832 in the publications of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, the earliest institution of modern archaeology, is the first study of the antiquities of the indigenous people of region and follows the trend inaugurated few decades before by Giuseppe Micali with his momentous book L’Italia avanti il dominio dei Romani (Florence, 1810). Both Micali and Lombardi speak enthusiastically of all the Italic peoples of the Italian Peninsula, of which they have a semi-mythical view, presenting them as industrious and honest; their merit is however to have anchored their historical reconstruction to real archaeological facts.

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