The Italian Americans Episode 1 - La Famiglia.

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The view from Vesuvius : Italian culture and the southern question / Nelson Moe. by Moe, Nelson, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Representing the South in the Risorgimento, c. 1825-1861 -- The North Looks South, 1825-1848 -- f Bourbons and Barbarism, 1848-1860 -- "This Is Not Italy!"…”
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In Search of Pre-Classical Antiquity.

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1 Italian Celticisms: A Second (Unpublished) Version of Giovanni Fabbroni's Antichi Abitatori d'Italia (1803); Chapter 2 Local Pride, Ethnicity and Ancient History in Turin in the Risorgimento: The Representation of the Taurisci/Taurini in Carlo Promis' Storia dell'Antica Torino (1869); Chapter 3 The Invention of Numantia and Emporion: Archaeology and the Regeneration of Spanish and Catalan Nationalisms after the Crisis of 1898; Chapter 4 Illyrian Autochthonism and the Beginnings of South Slav Nationalisms in the West Balkans.…”
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Garibaldi / Charles de Saint-Cyr. by Saint-Cyr, Charles de

Table of Contents: “…; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; TROISIÈME PARTIE -- Il Risorgimento; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; QUATRIÈME PARTIE -- L'Épopée des Mille; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; CINQUIÈME PARTIE -- Caprera; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; Page de Copyright…”
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The religious roots of contemporary European identity / edited by Lucia Faltin and Melanie J. Wright.

Table of Contents: “…Wright -- Only connect : a case study of the influence of the English Church and the non-Catholic cults in the Florence of the Risorgimento / Penny Mittler -- At the European roots of the interriligious dialogue between Christian orthodoxy and Judaism : history, the study of images, and modernity / Philippe Gardette -- Historical memory : blessing or burden? …”
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George Perkins Marsh : prophet of conservation / David Lowenthal ; foreword by William Cronon. by Lowenthal, David

Table of Contents: “…The English Language -- 11. Risorgimento and Civil War -- 12. Turin and the Alps -- 13. …”
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Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma. by Ibrahim, Vivian

Table of Contents: “…Charisma and the cult of the hero in Risorgimento Italy; 6. Abraham Lincoln The apotheosis of a Republican hero; 7. …”
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By the breath of their mouths : narratives of resistance in Italian America / Mary Jo Bona. by Bona, Mary Jo

Table of Contents: “…By the Breath of Their Mouths -- By the Breath of Their Mouths -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Justice/Giustizia Private Justice and the Folkloric Community in the World of Italian Americans -- 2: Faith/Fede Plenty to Confess Women and (Italian) American Catholicism -- 3: Story/Racconto Una chiacchierata nel passato Rosa and Marie of Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant -- 4: Land/Terra Village People in Guido D'Agostino's Novels with Joanne Ruvoli -- 5: History Singer/Cantastorie Vernacular Voices in Paule Marshall's and Tina De Rosa's Kunstlerromane -- 6: Precursor/Precursore Mother's Tongue Italian American Daughters and Female Precursors -- 7: Death/Morte What They Talk About When They Talk About Death -- 8: Revival/Risorgimento Stories Continue Shaping U.S. Italian American Writing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The projection and limitations of imperial powers, 1618-1850 / edited by Frederick C. Schneid.

Table of Contents: “…Schroeder -- War and revolution in the age of the Risorgimento, 1820-1849 / Frederick C. Schneid.…”
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The empire of stereotypes : Germaine de Staël and the idea of Italy / Robert Casillo. by Casillo, Robert

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Alessandro Torlonia The Pope’s Banker / by Daniela Felisini. by Felisini, Daniela

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Giacomo Leopardi's Search For A Common Life Through Poetry : a Different Nobility, A Different Love. by Rosengarten, Frank

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Sources and Translations; Introduction; Part One: Nobility--A Family Legacy and a Lingering Ideal; 1 Family Connections; 2 Poetry and the Heroic; 3 A Different Nobility; Part Two: Leopardi in Love; 4 The Languages of Love and Misogyny; 5 A Loving Partnership and Consalvo; 6 A Different Love; Part Three: Leopardi as a Poet of the Risorgimento; 7 The Poetry and Rhetoric of Liberal Patriotism; 8 Monaldo and Giacomo Leopardi; 9 Unpleasant, Rancorous Leopardi; 10 Leopardi in a Twentieth-Century Political Context; Part Four: Leopardi as Poet-Philosopher.…”
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A city in search of an author : the literary identity of Trieste / Katia Pizzi. by Pizzi, Katia

Table of Contents: “…Trieste and the Heritage of the RisorgimentoTrieste and the Two World Wars; Trieste and Romanticism; 3. …”
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A cosmopolitanism of nations : Giuseppe Mazzini's writings on democracy, nation building, and international relations / edited and with an introduction by Stefano Recchia and Nadia... by Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872

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Transatlantic revolutionary cultures, 1789-1861 / edited by Charlotte A. Lerg and Heléna Tóth.

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- "We will have true peace only when we will have the United States of Europe": the United States of America as a constitutional model for Italy during the Risorgimento / Anne Bruch -- "Reform, not revolution!"…”
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Italian Venice : a history / R.J.B. Bosworth. by Bosworth, R. J. B.

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Byron and Italy. by Rawes, Alan

Table of Contents: “…3 From Lord Nelvil to Dugald Dalgetty: Byron's Scottish identity in ItalyNotes; 4 The garden of the world: Byron and the geography of Italy; Geography as mindscape; Italy: a 'graced' ruin; Expanded by the 'genius of the spot'; Notes; 5 'Something I have seen or think it possible to see': Byron and Italian art in Ravenna; Acknowledgements; Notes; 6 'Something sensible to grasp at': Byron and Italian Catholicism; Notes; 7 The politics of the unities: tragedy and the Risorgimento in Byron and Manzoni; Acknowledgement; Notes; 8 Parisina, Mazeppa and Anglo-Italian displacement; Notes.…”
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Experiencing Verdi : a listener's companion / Donald Sanders. by Sanders, Donald C., 1949-

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Machiavelli's Children : Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan / Richard J. Samuels. by Samuels, Richard J.

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A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861-1950. by Donati, Sabina

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in the Main Text; Introduction; Chapter 1. National Risorgimento, the Piedmontese Solution and the Origins of Italian Monarchical Subjecthood (1859-1866); Part One. …”
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