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Émigrer con gusto  : les émigrés italiens et leur contribution à l’économie européenne aux xviie et xviiie siècles

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Riello, Giorgio. (2008) Émigrer con gusto  : les émigrés italiens et leur contribution à l’économie européenne aux xviie et xviiie siècles. Documents pour l’Histoire des Techniques (No.15). pp. 43-57. ISSN 978295307791

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Abstract

Le rôle des migrants italiens dans la diffusion du « goût italien » est bien connu dans au XXe siècle : le design, la mode et le « made in Italy » sont aujourd’hui largement appréciés. Mais on sait moins que la relation entre esthétique et culture italienne est portée par une lingue histoire, depuis la Renaissance. Ce lien s’est maintenu aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles quand l’économie italienne décline et se marginalise. Les migrants jouent un rôle clé pour conforter le goût italien dans les arts décoratifs, mais aussi dans la production de biens de consommation allant de la verrerie aux comestibles. Dans cet article, on examine deux cas : les ouvriers du stuc, issus du Tessin, une aire limitrophe entre l’Italie et la Suisse ; les détaillants de nourriture italienne à Londres dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Si ces deux cas révèlent des différences structurelles, ils expriment aussi des traits communs qui tiennent à la manière dont ces communautés ont utilisé l’identité italienne et leurs liens sociaux pour soutenir leur cause personnelle et, à la fois, promouvoir l’esthétique et les codes de civilité italiens à travers l’Europe. ------- The role of Italian migrants in spreading ‘Italian taste’ is well know in the twentieth century : Italian design, fashion and the ‘made-in-Italy’ are today appreciated globally. There is however little understanding of the fact that the relationship between aesthetic taste and Italian national culture has a long historical tradition going back to the Renaissance. This was kept alive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when Italy’s economy became marginal and declined. Migrants were key agents in upholding Italian taste in the decorative arts, but also in the production of consumer goods ranging from glass to food. This paper considers two cases : the stucco workers from the Ticino, a borderland area between Italy and Switzerland, who were active in central Europe and Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; and the case of Italian food retailers in London in the second half of the eighteenth century. These two cases show different structures and working for these two communities, but reveal also some common features in the way both communities used Italian identity and social links to foster their individual cause and, at the same time, promote Italian aesthetics and polite manners throughout Europe.

Item Type: Journal Article
Alternative Title: Migrating with taste : Italian migrants and their contribution to European material culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General)
D History General and Old World > DG Italy
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Italians -- Europe -- History -- 17th century, Italians -- Europe -- History -- 18th century, Europe -- Civilization -- Italian influences, Italians -- Material culture -- History, Aesthetics, Italian -- History
Journal or Publication Title: Documents pour l’Histoire des Techniques
Publisher: Lodel
ISSN: 978295307791
Date: 2008
Number: No.15
Page Range: pp. 43-57
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
URI: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/35414

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