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Risorgimento

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English meaning: Risorgimento (Italian unification movement)

Italian Definition

(Italiano)

Il movimento politico e sociale del XIX secolo per l'unificazione italiana — culminato nel Regno d'Italia (1861).

English Definition

The 19th-century political and social movement for Italian unification — culminating in the Kingdom of Italy (1861) under Vittorio Emanuele II. Key figures: Giuseppe Garibaldi (military leader), Camillo di Cavour (statesman), Giuseppe Mazzini (nationalist philosopher). The Risorgimento drew on Enlightenment ideals of nationalism and liberalism and inspired similar movements globally.

Example

Il Risorgimento ha unificato i diversi stati italiani in un unico regno nel 1861.

In English: The Risorgimento unified the diverse Italian states into a single kingdom in 1861.

Synonyms

  • unificazione italiana

Literary Heritage

Canto l'arme pietose e 'l capitano che 'l gran sepolcro liberò di Cristo.

I sing the pious arms and the captain who freed the great sepulchre of Christ.

Torquato Tasso · Poet · Late 16th century

Gerusalemme Liberata

Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata, 1581), Canto I, stanza 1, lines 1–2

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