Download or read book The Risorgimento Revisited written by S. Patriarca and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.