Scenes from a Bourgeois Marriage: Giovanni Zanardelli (1787 - 1853)
Journal title CHEIRON
Author/s Daniele Montanari
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2023/2
Language Italian Pages 30 P. 81-110 File size 189 KB
DOI 10.3280/CHE2023-002005
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This essay reconstructs the biographical and familial trajectory of the Brescian engineer Giovanni Zanardelli (1786 1854), the patriarch of a rising bourgeois family between the Napoleonic era and the Restoration. Rigorously trained in both technical-scientific and humanistic disciplines, Giovanni built a solid career within the state apparatus, culminating in his appointment as Deputy Chief Engineer of the Zanardelli: AZ; Raccolta Alessandro Bertoli: RAB. Province of Brescia. The essay examines his professional path, his role within Lombardy’s technocratic institutions, and his central place in the transmission of cultural, moral, and professional values to his large family—most notably to his eldest son Giuseppe, the future Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy. Particular attention is given to family dynamics, financial constraints, dowry and inheritance relations with the Caminada family, and strategies of social advancement through education, professional achievement, and property acquisition. What emerges is the emblematic portrait of a nineteenth-century bourgeois who embodied a synthesis of duty, social ambition, and pedagogical commitment in a context marked by institutional transition and intergenerational mobility.
Keywords: nineteenth-century bourgeoisie; social mobility; family and inheritance; education; Zanardelli.
Daniele Montanari, Scene da un matrimonio borghese. Giovanni Zanardelli (1787-1853) in "CHEIRON" 2/2023, pp 81-110, DOI: 10.3280/CHE2023-002005