Risorgimento

This volume collects some of the most significant writings on the Risorgimento of our country, written by historian Walter Maturi for the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana: first and foremost, the original and insightful Risorgimento, which represents the heart of the book, followed by Restaurazione, Questione romana, Neoguelfismo, and Savoia. Introduced by a comprehensive text by Alessandro Campi, these works reconstruct that complex historical, political, and specifically spiritual and moral process, rich in economic and social transformations, literary and cultural attitudes, and diplomatic and military events, that between the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth century brought Italy from ages of political fragmentation to unity, from foreign domination to national independence, from monarchical absolutism to a liberal and constitutional state under the House of Savoy. A troubled path, yet guided by the birth of a true national consciousness.