Re-reading the Risorgimento. Turin / Italy: 1884-2024

The exhibition Revisiting the Risorgimento. Turin / Italy: 1884-2024, curated by Alessandro Bollo, Silvia Cavicchioli and Daniela Orta, aims to commemorate, 140 years after the event, the first installation of the Museum of the Risorgimento: the Temple of the Risorgimento within the General Italian Exhibition of 1884 in the Valentino Park, a temporary installation, but of national scope, a prelude to the subsequent establishment, in 1901, of the […]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? The Risorgimento is part of the great European nationality movements, from which it draws many of its ideals and objectives. It is a process of rebirth, of political and civil regeneration of the peninsula which, not without contradictions and conflicts, thanks to the contribution of intellectuals, thinkers […]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? The Risorgimento is the complex historical, political, and cultural process – not unrelated to the other nineteenth-century revolutions – which, involving different strata of society for the first time, led to the creation of a unified state in Italy. An in-depth critical reading can finally overcome a vision […]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? The Risorgimento is considered by most historians to be the historical period between the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the capture of Rome in 1870 and its subsequent declaration as the capital of the Kingdom in 1871. After about 1500 years since the fall of the Empire […]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? On the pediment of the Vittoriano, one can read the dedication of what remains today the most important and significant public monument of united Italy: PATRIAE UNITATI e CIVIUM LIBERTATI. To the Unity of the Fatherland and to the Freedom of the Citizens. The meaning of the […] is condensed in this dual dedication

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? Hoped for, praised, feared, sanctified, even downsized in that post-war period that understandably condemned patriotisms, the Italian Risorgimento remains a powerful, original, and brilliant historical phenomenon. In just over a century and a half since that clamorous and confused 1848, a clumsy prologue to the mythicized new Europe of the […]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Risorgimento, a constant theme in the reflection on the identity of the nation, has reappeared as divisive rather than aggregating. Italians, still not “made”, therefore appear extraneous to a univocal identification of the entire population, ready to recognize themselves rather in configurations that […]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? The Risorgimento is much more than a chapter in history: it represents the process of building our national identity. It was a moment of great courage, in which extraordinary figures among its protagonists such as Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Cavour imagined a united and democratic Italy, a dream that then […]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? To rebuild and strengthen national cohesion in our country. This is what it means for a mayor, today, to refer to the Risorgimento: a season certainly not without contradictions, but marked by the will to broaden participation in political life, to reform the ancient states, breaking down the old models […]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? The Risorgimento, as seen from Caprera, is a movement that is still alive in the realization of the objectives pursued by Garibaldi: a cohesive Italy, attentive to rights, especially those of the weakest and poorest, capable of creating in fact that unity for which he had fought so hard. "O my wild one [...]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? A deep knowledge and understanding of the Risorgimento are fundamental requirements for building solid critical thinking, which is essential for navigating the present and developing full citizenship. The renovated Museo del Risorgimento Leonessa d’Italia in Brescia proposes a narrative that restores the complexity [...]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? Our nation was formed through the Risorgimento process, our system of values is rooted in that era, our cities themselves have a post-unification structure: acquiring a greater awareness of this heritage is beneficial to us, whatever our ideal position with respect to [...]

What is the Risorgimento, and what does it mean today? What does the Risorgimento mean today? The question emphasizes what relationships are still possible between the events that characterized it and our contemporaneity, and what objects, relics, documents, and iconographic works that testify to those events can tell us according to different interpretations. In an institution of [...]