is on display at the Capitoline Museums, the original copy of the Constitution of the Roman Republic in 1849, during the 162esimo its anniversary. The volume with the Constitution, provided by the Library of Perugia Augusta, will be in the Hall Captains until 20 February.
He was the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, who inaugurated the exhibition, attended, among others, the Chairman of the Trustees Committee for the Celebration of 150 years of 'Unity' Italy Giuliano Amato, the director of the Capitoline Museums Claudio Parisi Presicce, and Professor Lucio Villari, Professor of Modern History.
The Mayor stressed that this anniversary is related to that for 150 years of National Unity, as the Roman Republic was a "prequel, the wind anticipatory of the Italian Republic." The Constitution guarantees a secular state and the abolition of the death penalty: the Roman Republic was the second state the world to abolish it, after the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
The Roman Republic was born in the context of the liberal movements of 1848 that involved many European countries. On November 24, 1848 Pope Pius XI from Rome to Gaeta fled after the riots in the square followed the assassination of Prime Minister Pellegrino Rossi. After the creation of a provisional junta took place Jan. 21 elections by direct universal suffrage for men. On February 9, was passed a decree declaring that the temporal power, while recognizing the special Guarantees Church. Thus was born the Roman Republic, which was initially led by a triumvirate of Mazzini, Saffi, and Armellini, while the defense of Rome was entrusted to Garibaldi. The Roman Republic had short life and his experience ended July 4, 1849 with the intervention of French troops.
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