Risorgimento Revisited

ROBERTO BALZANI Professor of Contemporary History, University of Bologna, ItalyALBERTO M. BANTI Professor of History, University of Pisa, ItalyMANUEL BORUTTA Lecturer, Department of History, University of Cologne, Germany TULLIA CATALAN Research Associate, University of Trieste, ItalySIMONETTA CHIAPPINI University of Florence, ItalyMARINA D'AMELIA Department of History, The Sapienza University of Rome, ItalyPAUL GINSBORG University of Florence, ItalyMAURIZIO ISABELLA Senior Lecturer in History, Queen Mary, University of London, UKADRIAN LYTTELTON Senior Adjunct Professor of European Studies, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, ItalySILVANA PATRIARCA Professor of History, Fordham University, New York City, USAROS PESMAN Emeritus Professor of History, University of Sydney, AustraliaDOMINIQUE REILL Assistant Professor of History, University of Miami, Florida, USALUCY RIALL Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UKARIANNA ARISI ROTA University of Pavia, Italy

• Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Revisiting the Risorgimento; S.Patriarca & L.Riall European Romanticism and the Italian Risorgimento; P.Ginsborg The Hero and the People; A.Lyttelton From the People to the Masses: Political Developments in Italian Opera from Rossini to Mascagni; S.Chiappini Discovering Politics: Action and Recollection in the First Mazzzian Generation; A.Arisi Rota  & R.Balzani Mazzini and/in Love; R.Pesman Personal and Political Passions: Mothers in the Risorgimento; M.D'Amelia A Patriotic Emotion: Shame and the Risorgimento; S.Patriarca   Men at War: Masculinity and Military Ideals in the Risorgimento; L.Riall The Remembrance of Heroes; A.M.Banti   Anti-Catholicism and the Culture War in Risorgimento Italy; M.Borutta Italian Jews and the 1848-49 Revolutions: Patriotism and Multiple Identities; T.Catalan Liberalism and Empires in the Mediterranean: the Viewpoint of the Risorgimento; M.Isabella The Risorgimento: a Multi-National Movement; D.Reill Bibliography