Italian Foreign Policy

Review One of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997It is a most impressive and interesting work.... It is far more than a diplomatic history.... Chabod has produced a kind of total history that is a monument of scholarship, splendidly organized. Foreign Affairs Product Description Federico Chabod (19011960) was one of Italys bestknown historians, noted for his study of Italian history in a European context. This is the first English translation of his most important book. Although he carried out his extensive archival research for this work from 1936 until 1943, the fall of fascism and Chabods active participation in the Resistance delayed its completion. When it was published in 1951, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Chabod intended to write a new kind of diplomatic history one in which political history is seen as part of a larger historical whole. He does not present a detailed chronological account of Italian foreign policy during the period studied, but rather the moral and material underpinnings of that policy. In fact, he crafts a highly developed portrait of an age, with the real subjects being the Italian state and society, the ruling class and political culture. This work offers readers a superb picture of postRisorgimento Italy and an outstanding example of Chabods historiographical method. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Italian Foreign PolicyThe Statecraft of the FoundersBy Federico Chabod, William McCuaigPRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESSCopyright 1996 Princeton University PressAll rights reserved.ISBN: 9780691044507ContentsFOREWORD TO THE SERIES, ix, FEDERICO CHABOD: A BIOBIBLIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE BY FRANCESCO TUCCARI, xv, FEDERICO CHABOD, HISTORIAN OF ITALIAN FOREIGN POLICY BY WALTER MATURI, xxvii, PREFACE, xxxvii, A NOTE ON SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS, xlv, TRANSLATORS NOTE, xlvii, PART ONE: PASSIONS AND IDEAS, 1, I. The FrancoPrussian War and Italy, 3, CHAPTER 1 What Prussia Had to Teach, 5, CHAPTER 2 The Lesson of Reality in France, 67, CHAPTER 3 Against the Realism of Bismarck, 89, II. The Idea of Rome, 145, CHAPTER 4 The Mission of Rome, 147, CHAPTER 5 Science or Renovatio Ecclesiael, 173, CHAPTER 6 The Shadow of Caesar, 235, CHAPTER 7 The AntiRomans, 262, III. Order and Liberty, 269, CHAPTER 8 The Conservative Program, 271, CHAPTER 9 Among the Elite, 293, CHAPTER 10 Liberty and Law, 325, IV. The Present and the Future, 375, CHAPTER 11 The Present and the Future, 377, PART TWO: THE OBJECTIVE WORLD AND THE WORLD OF MEN, 399, I. The Objective World, 401, CHAPTER 12 Finance and the Army, 403, CHAPTER 13 Political Apathy, 422, CHAPTER 14 High Politics or the Politics of Tranquillity?, 438, II. The World of Men, 465, CHAPTER 15 Emilio Visconti Venosta, 467, CHAPTER 16 Costantino Nigra, 496, CHAPTER 17 Count de Launay, 511, CHAPTER 18 Count di Robilant, 515, CHAPTER 19 Lanza and Minghetti, 536, CHAPTER 20 Vittorio Emanuele II, 539, BIBLIOGRAPHY, 571, INDEX, 583, CHAPTER 1What Prussia Had to TeachOur Italian genius is going to take on its own new and original form of expression here. The endearing habits formed in exile, the attachments of the heart felt by the generation that is in its prime today for those who were its teachers in youth, the conceptions formed in a series of progressive stages by the nation during the last fifty years, Guelphism, Liberal Catholicism, the collaboration of Italy and the papacy in politics, the alliance of the Latin races, all these will be preserved as touching souvenirs and as proofs of our good faith and our good will in each of the situations through which we have passedbut let us break the hold they have on our ideas and our actions in the present. Germany, following in the steps of England and America, has gained such a lead on the rest of the world that we shall have to hurry our pace and pursue reality, leaving behind affections, dreams, and the sentimental ideal, and grasp hold vigo