From the secret Carbonari societies after Waterloo to the fall of papal Rome in 1870, the countess traces how a patchwork of Austrian provinces, duchies and kingdoms became one nation. Prisons and scaffolds, Mazzini’s Young Italy, the brief hopes placed in Pius IX, the revolutions of 1848, Garibaldi’s campaigns and Cavour’s diplomacy all take their place in a story of cause and effect.
Written by an Englishwoman married into the Italian nobility, it brings sympathy and close knowledge to the Risorgimento. Download the free EPUB.