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By the mid-eighteenth century the heartland of the European Renaissance had degenerated into one of the most underdeveloped regions in the continent. Equally remarkable, though, was the revival or Risorgimento’ which it experienced from the early nineteenth century and which culminated eventually in its political unification. Yet the route followed to this creation was by no means preordained, or even the best one possible.
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Carrie, R. A., Italy from Napoleon to Mussolini (Columbia, 1950). Mack Smith, D., The Making of Italy, 1796–1866 (Macmillan, 1968). Woolf, S., A History of Italy, 1700–1860 (Methuen, 1979).
Carrie, R. A., Italy from Napoleon to Mussolini (Columbia, 1950). Mack Smith, D., The Making of Italy, 1796–1866 (Macmillan, 1968). Woolf, S., A History of Italy, 1700–1860 (Methuen, 1979).
Carrie, R. A., Italy from Napoleon to Mussolini (Columbia, 1950). Mack Smith, D., The Making of Italy, 1796–1866 (Macmillan, 1968). Woolf, S., A History of Italy, 1700–1860 (Methuen, 1979).
Griffith, G. O., Mazzini: Prophet of Modern Europe (Hodder & Stoughton, 1932).
Hales, E. E. Y., Mazzini and the Secret Societies: The Making of a myth (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956).
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Miller, S.T. (1988). Italy 1796–1848. In: Mastering Modern European History. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19580-0_6
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