The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880-1934

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Luigi Piccioni James Sievert

The Beloved Face of the Country

The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880-1934

Luigi Piccioni, James Sievert

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English

White Horse Press
15 December 2020

European history; Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations

Between 1880 and the outbreak of World War One, a large movement for landscape and nature protection flourished in Europe, driven primarily by a nationalist culture, but also featuring a strong international outlook. In contrast to the post-World War Two period, the lines in the movement's objectives between wilderness, landscape and cultural and artistic heritage were very blurred, and scientific and humanistic knowledge both played an equally important role. In Italy, a network of associations and institutions was built up and then eventually faded between 1885 and the beginning of the 1930s. Although this network did not succeed in deeply influencing the scientific and civic culture of the country, it achieved important successes and placed Italy at the forefront of Europe in terms of environmental and landscape protection. Among the most significant results of this mobilisation was the law of 1923 for the defence of natural beauty, which later formed the basis of Article 9 of the Constitution of 1948, and the creation of the national parks of Gran Paradiso and Abruzzo, among the first to be established in Europe. This book analytically reconstructs the events of the nature protection movement, contextualising them in the cultural and political-institutional climate of the time; highlights the movement's full inclusion in contemporary European protectionist initiatives; and attempts to take stock of its significance and historical legacy.

By: Luigi Piccioni
Translated by: James Sievert
Imprint: White Horse Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781912186150
ISBN 10: 1912186152
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 15 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Luigi Piccioni (Ph.D. in Humanities) is an economic and environmental historian and a professor at the University of Calabria. His initial research over a long period of time was the economic history of Southern Italy in the modern age. But he has increasingly dedicated himself to environmental history, making it his main field of research. The topics on which he has focused his attention are the history of Italian environmentalism, in particular the pioneering activities that took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; and environmentalism from the Second World War to the present, including national parks and protected areas, as well as the relationship between environmental issues and the cultural, political and spiritual currents of the 1960s and 1970s. His publications in English include the book Forty Years Later: The Reception of the Limits to Growth in Italy, 1971-1974 (2012), and he was editor of the book Ninety Years of Abruzzo National Park 1922-2012. Proceedings of the Conference Held in Pescasseroli, May 18-20, 2012 (2013). He has also written several articles in English, including 'The rise of European environmentalism: a cosmopolitan wave, 1865-1914', 'Only one Earth: The Holy See and ecology', 'Protectionism and the protection of nature in Italy over the end of nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries', and 'Protecting the Alps. Italian protected areas in the Alpine Range 1911-1991'. He is vice-president of the Italian Society for the History of Fauna and director of the environmental history magazine altronovecento. THE TRANSLATOR James Sievert received his Ph.D. in environmental history from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of the book The Origins of Nature Conservation in Italy.