Italian aristocratic deference to foreign rulers persisted even as nationalists refused it
Evidence
Panzini contrasts Cavour’s refusal to pay any official respects to the Austrian Emperor when he visited his Italian possessions in 1857 with the attitude of the Lombard aristocracy who paid him homage—including one lady who decorated her balcony with a tiger-skin in his honour. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1960
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the Gramscian toolkit on hegemony and how subaltern/aristocratic classes orient themselves toward dominant foreign powers — relevant for later Islamophobia readings on how domestic elites collude with imperial authority.