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Garibaldi
The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882) brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the Americas as he did in Europe, becoming an international freedom fighter, earning the title of the "hero of two worlds," and making himself perhaps the most famous and beloved man of his century. - Publisher.
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The Risorgimento Revisited
Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.
Garibaldi’s Radical Legacy
Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time. In that context, the Spanish Civil War and the armed resistances during the Second World War involved particularly large numbers of transnational fighters. The need to fight fascism wherever it presented itself was undoubtedly the main motivation behind these fighters’ decision to mobilise. Despite all this, however, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that some of these volunteers felt they were the last exponents of a tradition of armed volunteering which, in their case, originated in the nineteenth century. The capacity of war volunteering to endure and persist over time has rarely been investigated in historiography. The aim of this book is to reconstruct the radical and transnational tradition of war volunteering connected to Giuseppe Garibaldi’s legacy in Southern Europe between the unification of Italy (1861) and the end of the Second World War (1945). This book seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of the long-term, interconnected, and radical dimensions of the so called Garibaldinism.
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Garibaldi
Originally published under the title: Garibaldi and his enemies. Boston, Little, Brown, 1965.
Who's who in Italy
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Addio mia bella addio. Battaglie ed eroi (sconfitti) del Risorgimento
Addio mia bella addio è una canzone del 1848 che cantavano i giovani volontari che combattevano per la libertà dell'Italia. Di quei ragazzi oggi restano i teschi negli ossari di Custoza, di San Martino e in tanti altri luoghi d'Italia. E allora, per capire cosa animava quei giovani è necessaria una narrazione «dal basso», una storia militare che porti a immedesimarsi negli uomini di quel tempo, oggi così svalutato. Alberto Leoni ha ripercorso i campi di battaglia di allora, camminando su quei colli, in quei vigneti, visitando le case che ancora oggi portano i segni delle cannonate. E ripercorrendo quelle strade, salendo su quelle alture o visitando quelle cascine, il lettore riuscirà a varcare il cancello del Tempo, riappropriandosi così del passato per capire meglio il presente.
