La superstizione di re Carlo Alberto: Il caso della visionaria Carlotta Cerino
"His religion sometimes degenerated into true superstition". These are the words - referring to Carlo Alberto, king od Sardinia - that Luigi Cibrario wrote in 1866 to Vittorio Emanuele II after reading the secret diary of Cesare Trabucco of Castagnetto, former secretary of the "magnan...
| Résumé: | "His religion sometimes degenerated into true superstition". These are the words - referring to Carlo Alberto, king od Sardinia - that Luigi Cibrario wrote in 1866 to Vittorio Emanuele II after reading the secret diary of Cesare Trabucco of Castagnetto, former secretary of the "magnanimous and martyr" king. The reference was specific: in 1835 a woman named Carlotta Cerino, a cook, claimed to have visions of the venerable Clotilde, queen of Sardinia, wife of Carlo Emanuele IV. This was a particularly delicate political moment for the government, struggling with infightings, and Carlo Alberto was troubled by the woman. The "progressives" unmasked the machinations of the ventriloquist cook, introduced into the royal palace by the "supporters of the Jesuits" in order to confuse the sovereign and lead him to abandon the reforms. The "seances" did not last long; definitively unmasked by a theologian, the woman was arrested and locked up in the Pallanza prison, where she died in a short time. But the case had a certain resonance and there were testimonies pros and cons the visionary. The essay intends to retrace the story on the ground of published and unpublished documents, in order to propose a cross-section of politics and religion in the tormented initial years of the reign of Carlo Alberto. |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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