and 1859-1861 (the second war of independence and its aftermath): Italian unification was by no means a simple process. On the pro-unification side, the Sardinian monarchy eventually fought in an ...

The stirring myth of the Risorgimento, the rebirth that allegedly brought about the unification of Italy and the creation of the Italian state ... in the war of 1859-60, history unfurling had ...

Italian unification was “an aspect of “globalisation ... seeing the Risorgimento as a continuation of their own War of Independence. Until 1861 Mazzini, a nationalist republican unifier ...

Historian Lupo focuses on the Italian branch of the Mafia, following it from its roots in Italy’s 19th-century wars of unification to the anti-Mafia maxi-trial of the 1980s and 1990s ...

This year's movies include "L'Uomo Che Verra" ("The Man Who Will Come"), a drama about the Italian partisans who fought on the Allied side in World War II, followed by a Q&A with a surviving partisan.

He taught himself the Italian language and, after graduating from Cambridge, spent the final years of the Second World War working for the Government at the Cabinet Office in London. It was in ...