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Author-Name: Claudio Bargelli
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università di Parma - Dipartimento di Economia
Title: «L'empire de l'habitude»: saggezza popolare e pensiero agronomico nel Parmense tra Sette e Ottocenro
(The empire de l'habitude: popular wisdom and agronomical thought in the territory of Parma between the eighteenth and the nineteenth century)
Abstract: The essay deals with the agronomical thought in the Parmesan States in the transition period between
the decline of the Ducal Age and the Restoration. It examines not only the cultivation and managerial
aspects but, more in general, the forma mentis that dominates the rural world. It is remarkable that,
for most of the nineteenth century, the spread of agronomical knowledge is assigned to, and condensed
in, simple and recurring agronomical rules – in primis sayings – in a peculiar union between
religiousness and superstition that tends to perpetuate itself in the eternal cycle of the nature. The
early associational experiences (agrarian academies) and specialized agronomical reviews were of an
ephemeral character. Likewise, the experience of the first university chair of Practical Reasoned Agriculture
at the University of Parma, held by Giuseppe Gialdi, has an ephemeral character. Substantially,
the circulation of agronomical treatises was limited and elitist; it was similar to a reduced oasis
in a traditional society still based on empiricism and orality.
Classification-JEL: B10; B40; N53 
Keywords: Italia; XVIII-XIX secolo; pensiero agronomico; Stati Parmensi 
(Italy; XVIII-XIXth century; agronomical thought; Parmesan States)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 10-33
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Year: 2006
File-URL: https://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=200606302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:14:y:2006:2:1:p:10-33