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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2023

R.J.B. Bosworth
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University of Oxford
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In the Conclusion, I record the rival fates of Giovanni and Giorgio Amendola since 1980, whether in scholarship, public memory or Italian streetscapes. In each regard, the liberal democrat Giovanni Amendola has moved up and the communist Giorgio Amendola down. The (humane) communist world Giorgio believed in has all but totally disappeared. But liberal democracy, however much transmuted by an all but totalitarian neoliberalism, has prospered and, perhaps, triumphed. Certainly, when the centenary of Giovanni’s death occurs in 1926, it is likely that he will be celebrated as a father of his patria. What might be viewed as the historical limitations of his understanding of where the world was going, his all but non-existent commentary on capitalism and finance, his patriarchalism, his positive view of Italian imperialism – these no longer matter. He can take the leading place as his country’s most admirable saint and martyr of Anti-Fascism.

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Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family
The Amendolas in the Age of Totalitarianisms
, pp. 187 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Conclusion
  • R.J.B. Bosworth, University of Oxford
  • Book: Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family
  • Online publication: 13 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009280167.009
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  • Conclusion
  • R.J.B. Bosworth, University of Oxford
  • Book: Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family
  • Online publication: 13 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009280167.009
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  • Conclusion
  • R.J.B. Bosworth, University of Oxford
  • Book: Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family
  • Online publication: 13 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009280167.009
Available formats
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