risorgimento
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The novel follows the latter years of Don Fabrizio, a haughty and dissolute but dutiful Sicilian prince during the Risorgimento, the period in the latter half of the 19th century when the modern state of Italy was coalescing, modernizing and democratizing.
From the late 18th century until the mid-20th, Catholicism in Europe, where more than half the world’s Catholics lived in 1962, was absorbed with defending the institutional church against the assaults of political modernity: The French Revolution, the German Kulturkampf, the Italian Risorgimento, communism, fascism and Nazism had each sought to break the church on the wheel of state power.
Is she the love poet famous for “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”? The chronicler of the Italian Risorgimento for staid British readers?
From New York Times
In the 1920s, fascism captured Italy, in which, it has been said, the poetry of the Risorgimento — national unification achieved in 1870 — was followed by “the prose of everyday existence.”
From Washington Post
For all my frustrations with this country, I’m an Italian patriot, obsessed by the underdog heroics of the Risorgimento in the mid-late 19th century, when Giuseppe Garibaldi’s guerrillas fought for Italian reunification against the European super-powers.
From The Guardian
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