ABSTRACT
Between 1814 and 1816, as we have seen, Italy witnesses the concurrent births of the word Romanticismo, of an albeit vague literary and aesthetic concept related to it, and of a school referring to it as the label of a wide-ranging cultural project. The Congress of Vienna – from November 1814 to June 1815 – radically redraws the geopolitical map of post-Napoleonic Europe, with the explicit aim of turning back time and restoring the Ancien Régime – as if nothing had happened.
