The Lure of the Risorgimento
Questions
- Choose an item from the Garibaldi and the Risorgimento digital archive and discuss how Garibaldi was portrayed in contemporary popular culture.
- What was the appeal to British radicals of figures such as Mazzini, Garibaldi and Orsini?
- How was the Risorgimento used by British feminists to subvert female stereotypes?
- What role did ex-patriot women living in Italy play in the cultural politics of the Risorgimento
Key Reading
Nick Carter (ed.), Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento, especially intro and chapters by Allen, Bacchin and Sutcliffe
Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe, Victorian Radicals and Italian Democrats, especially intro
Sarah Richardson, The Political Worlds of Women, chapter 8
Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Further Reading
Barbara Caine, 'La bella liberta', Women's Writing, 10 (2003)
Alison Chapman, ‘On Il Risorgimento’
Margot Finn, After Chartism
'Civilizing Southern Italy: British and Italian women and the cultural politics of European nation building', Women's Writing, 10 (2003)
Lucy Riall, The Italian Risorgimento: state, society and national unification
Lucy Riall, The Risorgimento Revisited
