Sensibilities of the Risorgimento

Roberto Romani, Ph.D. (1990), is an Associate Professor in the History of Economic Thought at the University of Teramo (Italy). He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge, in 1995-8, and a Member of the School of History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 2014. His publications include National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France, 1750-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsMapIntroduction1 Against the Passions of Revolution: Making the Moderate Sensibility, 1815–18482 Grand Vision, Minor Demands: The Themes and Sources of 1840s Moderatism3 The Truths of the Heart: Passions, Sentiments, and Faith from Mazzini to Nievo4 The Reason of the Elites: Constitutional Moderatism in the Kingdom of Sardinia, 1849–1861ConclusionBibliographyIndex