The Lombard aristocracy still oriented its deference toward Austrian rule
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
- DEFINE: Illustrates a status distinction between Cavour’s symbolic refusal and aristocratic homage — a concrete instance of class alignment with colonial/imperial power.