The stirring myth of the Risorgimento, the rebirth that allegedly brought about the unification of Italy and the creation of the Italian state ... and thoughtful book Lucy Riall sets out to ...

His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit ... The swell in support for Italian unification really began in 1815, after the Congress of Vienna divided up post-Napoleon Italy.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ... balance between the events of the Risorgimento, the Italian unification movement, and the imagined inner life of the novel ...

Now comes this book by Gilmour, whose previous work on ... in the swelling chorus of hostility to Italian unification. So if Italy was not a state, what was it? As Gilmour explains, there was ...

During the Renaissance, parts of the Italian peninsula were among Europe’s richest regions, yet the country stagnated from then until well after unification was completed ... by Italy’s central bank, ...

Based on Italian author Giuseppe Tomasi di ... during the Risorgimento (a social and political movement for Italian unification which took place in the 1800s). In order to preserve his family's ...

Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio (“The Traitor”) is set to reconstruct the true-life drama of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858. It’s a story that ...

Sheila Dillon explores a food story behind the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. In 1861 Italians came together as one nation, but does food reveal a different story? Sheila Dillon ...