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Risorgimento

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Ri·sor·gi·men·to  (r-sôrj-mnt, r-zôrj-)
n.
The period of or the movement for the liberation and political unification of Italy, beginning about 1750 and lasting until 1870.
[Italian, from risorgere, to rise again, from Latin resurgere; see resurge.]
Risorgimento [rɪˌsɔːdʒɪˈmɛntəʊ]
n
(Historical Terms) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the period of and the movement for the political unification of Italy in the 19th century
[Italian, from risorgere to rise again, from Latin resurgere, from re- + surgere to rise]
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By the time the nationalist passions of the Risorgimento were at full boil, Italian men were dueling at a rate of one a day, a figure that was maintained until after 1870 and which diminished only slowly thereafter.
Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy by Nye, Robert A. / Journal of Social History
Only the small kingdom of Piedmont remained independent and after the interlude of Napoleon''s occupation it became the driving force behind il Risorgimento, the great movement that led to the unification of Italy in 1870 under the Royal House of Savoia.
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In "Consolo and the Fictions of History," Dombroski argues that Consolo's narrative voice does not aspire to the totalizing representation of the complex socio-political landscape of Risorgimento history of Federico de Roberto's I Vicere and Pirandello's I vecchi e i giovani.
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