It was precisely starting from the Habsburg age that the Società del Giardino began to take deep roots in the city fabric and in the history of Milan and one of its main strengths was the active participation of its members in its life which was exemplified in the organization of an intense social life. Parties, lunches, academies together with games were the main purposes of the Club and represented opportunities for all members to meet, form friendships and family ties, exchange professional skills and contribute to building a part of the city's history. These social events certainly became functional to the construction of networks of economic, political and social relationships, but they also represented spaces for artistic and technological experimentation, thanks to that class of shopkeepers, entrepreneurs and professionals, often men of great culture, who were always the soul of the Società del Giardino, favoring the development of a modern public opinion which was then the main substratum of nineteenth-twentieth century Milanese liberal society.
Fu proprio partire dall’età asburgica che la Società del Giardino cominciò a radicarsi profondamente nel tessuto cittadino e nella storia di Milano e una delle sue principali forze fu la partecipazione attiva dei soci alla sua vita che si esemplificò nell’organizzazione di una vita mondana intensa. Le feste, i pranzi, le accademie insieme con il gioco furono le principali finalità del circolo e rappresentarono per tutti i soci le occasioni in cui incontrarsi, stringere legami amicali e parentali, scambiarsi competenze professionali e contribuire a costruire una parte della storia della città. Tali eventi mondani divennero certamente funzionali alla costruzione di reti di relazioni economiche, politiche, sociali, ma rappresentarono anche spazi di sperimentazione artistica e tecnologica, grazie a quel ceto di negozianti, imprenditori e professionisti, spesso uomini di grande cultura, che fu sempre l’anima della Società del Giardino, favorendo lo sviluppo di una moderna opinione pubblica che fu poi il sostrato principale della società liberale italiana e milanese otto-novecentesche.
Riva, E., Forme di sociabilità impegnata. Feste, balli e cerimonie nella Società del Giardino dalla Restaurazione all’Unità d’Italia, in Società Del Giardin, S. D. G., Bianchi, A., Riva, E. (ed.), Società del Giardino 1783-2023. Sociabilità e convivialità nella Milano moderna, Il Geko, Avegno 2024: 93- 112 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/274082]
Forme di sociabilità impegnata. Feste, balli e cerimonie nella Società del Giardino dalla Restaurazione all’Unità d’Italia
Riva, Elena
Primo
2024
Abstract
It was precisely starting from the Habsburg age that the Società del Giardino began to take deep roots in the city fabric and in the history of Milan and one of its main strengths was the active participation of its members in its life which was exemplified in the organization of an intense social life. Parties, lunches, academies together with games were the main purposes of the Club and represented opportunities for all members to meet, form friendships and family ties, exchange professional skills and contribute to building a part of the city's history. These social events certainly became functional to the construction of networks of economic, political and social relationships, but they also represented spaces for artistic and technological experimentation, thanks to that class of shopkeepers, entrepreneurs and professionals, often men of great culture, who were always the soul of the Società del Giardino, favoring the development of a modern public opinion which was then the main substratum of nineteenth-twentieth century Milanese liberal society.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.