Un intellectual italiano en América Latina: el viaje de Enrico Corradini de 1908 y las origenes del nacionalismo en Italia

In the first decade of the XX century the Italian «various nationalism» found one of its most prominent members in Enrico Corradini, able to transform a generic desire of power in a concrete political action. Latin America had a significant weight in the evolution of the ideas of Corradini, who in 1908 travelled to Brasil and Argentina, visiting the two countries and meeting the Italian communities. Thanks to the travel, documented by the correspondences sent to the Corriere della Sera and mentioned in several following works, the writer developed ideas that had a great relevance for the rise of Italian nationalism. In the emigrants Corradini found an evidence of the weakness of Italy, which was unable to assist its expatriated citizens and to keep their sense of national identity. The article, based on Corradini’s works and on the press of the period, aims at examining how the travel influenced his political thought and, more in general, how it contributed to the development of Italian nationalism.