Anthropos
01-06-2010, 05:30 PM
Carbonari
(CHARCOAL-BURNERS)
The name of a secret political society, which played an important part, chiefly in France and Italy, during the first decades of the nineteenth century. The improbable claim was made that the society originated some centuries earlier, and the French king Francis I appears in the secret documents of the Carbonari as one of their protectors. In reality the association originated as the eighteenth century passed into the nineteenth; it was one of the results of the political movement which accompanied the great French Revolution and of the political principles that were proclaimed at that time. It is not certain whether the Carbonari, as a political society, had its first organization in France or Italy. At any rate the power of the association was first shown at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the Kingdom of Naples and the States of the Church. READ MORE (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03330c.htm)Certain rather defining traits of The Carbonari account for the posting of this under 'Religion' rather than under 'Politics', but political discussions pertaining to the Carbonari are most welcome. Initiation, grades and an oath of silence are among the reasons for treating them in a context related to religion, but their influence has been directly political. The article is rather short and quite interesting. :wink
(CHARCOAL-BURNERS)
The name of a secret political society, which played an important part, chiefly in France and Italy, during the first decades of the nineteenth century. The improbable claim was made that the society originated some centuries earlier, and the French king Francis I appears in the secret documents of the Carbonari as one of their protectors. In reality the association originated as the eighteenth century passed into the nineteenth; it was one of the results of the political movement which accompanied the great French Revolution and of the political principles that were proclaimed at that time. It is not certain whether the Carbonari, as a political society, had its first organization in France or Italy. At any rate the power of the association was first shown at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the Kingdom of Naples and the States of the Church. READ MORE (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03330c.htm)Certain rather defining traits of The Carbonari account for the posting of this under 'Religion' rather than under 'Politics', but political discussions pertaining to the Carbonari are most welcome. Initiation, grades and an oath of silence are among the reasons for treating them in a context related to religion, but their influence has been directly political. The article is rather short and quite interesting. :wink