Napoleonic Milan. Laboratory of modernity and strategies of representation. Proceedings of Conference, Milan 15-16 March 2021

This volume gathers the proceedings of the Conference “Napoleonin Milan” held on 15 and 16 March 2021 by the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in conjunction with the Centro di Studi Italiani (CSI-CIS) and the Centro di Cultura e Iniziativa Teatrale “Mario Apollonio” (CIT), both active at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. It is also accompanied by the partial catalogue of the exhibition “Napoleon at the Ambrosian”, which rounds off the Conference, mounted at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana from 5 October 2021 to 4 may 2022. As at other times in its history, Milan was also a hotbed of innovation during the Napoleonic era, during both the phase of the revolutionary triennium and the republic and the phase of the Kingdom of Italy between 1796, when the young General Bonaparte entered the city, and 1814, when Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais gave up and fled Italy. This is the idea that inspired this Conference. Milan in these years is a laboratory of modernity in which a process of