Virtù, commercio e politica, circolazione delle idee nell’area adriatica tra Settecento ed Ottocento

This essay on one hand highlights the existence of a commercial and cultural network, which had its centre in Hapsburg and Napoleonic Trieste and fostered the circulation of goods, ideas, texts and people in the Adriatic area. On the other hand, it utilizes Trieste as a case study to show the recodification process that characterized the concept of virtue, in particular during the battle of ideas, which opposed initially revolutionary and counter revolutionary positions and later on filo-Napoleonic and anti-Napoleonic ones.