La scrittura dell’esilio: militari ed intellettuali italiani in Catalogna durante il Trienio Liberal 1820-1823

Abstract

This paper describes texts left by Italian exiles who participated in the Trienio (Triennium) in order to reconstruct their personal experience and relationship with the society in which they were immersed. The perspective is historical: when intertwined with historiographical literature, their production may give new insights into political relations between Italy and Spain, peninsular social life during the Trienio, and wars. The use of letters, witness statements, pleadings and other texts is therefore proposed as a source of analysis (authors and recipients of texts, dates), which, apart from determining style and content, provides information on individual processes of identity construction that took place during the Risorgimento period.