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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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Further reading
Carrie, R.A., Italy from Napoleon to Mussolini (Columbia, 1950).
Duggan, C., A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge, 1994).
Mack Smith, D., The Making of Italy, 1796–1866 (Macmillan, 1968).
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).
Riall, L., The Italian Risorgimento (Routledge, 1994).
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Miller, S. (1997). Italy 1796–1848. In: Mastering Modern European History. Macmillan Master Series. Red Globe Press, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13789-3_6
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