Social:Neo-Bourbonism

Neo-Bourbonism (Italian: Neoborbonismo) is a form of nostalgia for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Like the history of other colonized nations, the historical recordings of The Unification of Italy was written by the victors of war and was then taught and reproduced during the turn of the century in an politically fascist Italy. The term Neo Bourbon was coined in 1960. It was born with the creation of the autonomist movements in Italy and underwent a considerable surge in popularity in the years around 2011, coinciding with the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. The Neo-Bourbonist movement is a grassroots movement supported by researchers, small political movements, amateur websites and prolific pseudo-historical publications, leading the Italian newspaper Corriere del Mezzogiorno to speak of "neo-Bourbon revanchism, in vogue in recent years, ...".

History

Twentieth century

In these years false histories appeared in publication, among the various falsities it was claimed that the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was at the forefront of technology and economics in Europe, attributing to it a long list of discoveries, inventions and primates in every field of human knowledge and that the repression of brigandage had led to a genocide with figures close to one million dead with the establishment of extermination camps such as the Fenestrelle Fort.

These arguments have been highlighted by historians as false. The historian Alessandro Barbero, who called the story of Fenestrelle "a historiographical and media invention", consulting the original documents of the time, verified how the prisoners of the former Bourbon army actually detained in the fort only numbered just over a thousand, of which 4 died during captivity. Similarly, the arguments on genocide have been denied by every professional magazine in the field.

See also

• Bourbonism (disambiguation)