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SUMMARY:Renaissance\, Humanism\, and longue durée Fascism: Political meditations on Petrarch's Africa (1337)
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Fascism is an Italian invention\, and something that\, as the story proves these days too\, never left the country. I argue in this talk that 20th c Italian Fascism has a much longer legacy and roots in the history of Italian ethnic nationalism\, with its colonial history\, racism\, anti-Arabism\, antisemitism\, all phenomena that way predate the history of Italy as a modern nation (ca. 1860). While Rome's imperialism is an obvious source for this story\, I focus here on the forgotten epic poem Africa\, in Latin exametres\,&nbsp\; that gave Francesco Petrarca his title of Poet Laureate (1341) and made him the founding father of Italian Humanism. I situate Petrarch's nine book poem on the Second Punic War (ca. 200 BCE) within the exclusionary processes\, ethnic cleansing and proto-colonialism of fourteenth century Christian Europe\, with a particular focus on the persecution of Arabic minorities\, and de-arabization of European medicine and philosophy.</p>\n<p>Maurizio Meloni is Associate professor in sociology at Deakin.</p>\n<p>Zoom link available on request to Sean Bowden (s.bowden@deakin.edu.au)</p>
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