Il carteggio fra Francesco Brioschi e Quintino Sella 1859-1883 - The correspondence between Francesco Brioschi and Quintino Sella 1859-1883 by Clara Silvia Roero, Livia Giacardi, Chiara Pizzarelli

“… The correspondence between the mathematician Francesco Brioschi (1824-1897) and Quintino Sella (1827-1884) highlights aspects of their political and cultural activity during the period of the unification of Italy. Both played a significant role not only in the ministerial commissions of public education, finance and public works, but also in local and national academies and scientific societies. …”
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I pellegrinaggi patriottici nell’Italia liberale. Linguaggi e luoghi / The Patriotic Pilgrimages in Liberal Italy. Languages and Places by Bagnaresi, Davide

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I cento anni del Vittoriano: da luogo della memoria a luogo turistico by Matteo Troilo

“…"Il Vittoriano" is the great memorial dedicated to the first king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II and it was built in Rome's historic centre and inaugurated in 1911 during the celebrations for the fifty years of the unification of Italy. Over the years his role has changed several times: first a place of exaltation of the Risorgimento, then a place of remembrance for the dead of World Wars and finally the current form of museum and art gallery. …”
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Italia: La chiusura della Casa dell’Emigrante come spunto riflessione sui rientri degli emigrati italiani by Anna Aluffi Pentini, Fabio Olivieri

“…The essay traces the pervasive ambiguity that characterizes this country’s attitudes towards emigration from the beginning of mass emigration shortly after the unification of Italy in 1868 to the emigration policies of the fascist regime of Mussolini and the post-World War II waves of emigration right through to the corresponding ambiguity concerning the status of immigrants in contemporary society, including the indifferent treatment of returning Italian emigrants who constitute a considerable numerical phenomenon.…”
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Murder at the Opera: “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “I Pagliacci” by Bülent AYYILDIZ

“…These two operas complete each other, both chronologically and subject matters as works reflecting the social, political and cultural changes arisen after the unification of Italy. While the opera of Mascagni in 1890 and Leoncavallo’s opera in 1892 indicate a turning point in the Italian opera and also represent the birth of a new theater and artistic heritage: verismo and verist opera. …”
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Stratifications of the Immigration Landscape. A Case Study on the Outskirts of Milan by Guido Lucarno, Maria Vittoria Lucarno

“…During its history, since the political Unification of Italy, the town has gradually transformed from an agricultural village to an industrial center that, already after the First World War, began to attract flows of immigrants from the southern Italian regions. …”
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Songs without Sunrise: Irish Victorian Poetry and the Risorgimento by Frederik Van Dam

“…Historical circumstances can explain why the nineteenth-century struggle for the unification of Italy did not lead to rapprochement between Italy and Ireland: support for the Italian cause put Irish nationalists in opposition with Catholic interests at home, while in the eyes of Italian nationalists the Irish question weakened the function of Britain as a liberalising power. …”
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Earthquake, GIS and multimedia. The 1883 Casamicciola earthquake by M. Rebuffat, M. G. Martini, E. Cubellis, S. Castenetto, F. Bramerini, P. Soddu

“…This earthquake is particularly interesting for the following reasons: I) historical-cultural context (first destructive seismic event after the unification of Italy); 2) its features (volcanic earthquake); 3) the socioeconomic consequences caused at such an important seaside resort.…”
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Women’s Associations and children’s rights in Italy (1861-1930) by Gabriella Seveso, Daniela Finco

“…The article reconstructs the history of the right to education for early childhood in Italy in the period between the Unification of Italy (1861) and the first decades of the twentieth century. …”
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Condizioni politiche e amministrative della Sicilia, di Leopoldo Franchetti by A cura di Sarah Mazzenzana

“…It represents an historical  document of  precious value, as it demonstrates the link between the roots of mafia phenomenon and the specifities of social relations and economic conditions in Sicily after the Unification of Italy. Keywords: Franchetti, Sicily, 1876, investigation, society…”
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Un breve profilo biografico di Nicola Tranfaglia - Short biography of Nicola Tranfaglia by Fabio Levi

“…In particular, he dealt with the relationship between the Fascist regime and the persisting characteristics deriving from of unification of Italy in 1861, as well as the legacies of the Fascist regime after the proclamation of the Italian Republic in 1945. …”
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Language learning through TV: the RAI offer between past and present by Deborah Cappelli

“…In the past, RAI played a fundamental role for linguistic unification in Italy when dialects were still the only means by which Italians were able to express themselves. …”
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For a History of the Use of the Antoninian Baths: Owners, Excavations and Dispossession by Isabella Salvagni

“…An attempt is made to provide a brief overview of this long and little-known history of use, covering the 300 years from the mid-16th century to the Unification of Italy. Starting from the identification of some of the many figures who have alternated over time as owners of the individual estates in different capacities, the story gives us a valuable amount of information also relating to what the owners themselves, as customers, have deliberated and conducted on the farms which they used, cultivating them, building and directing stripping, excavation, accommodation, reuse, and destruction operations, while providing us with useful data for the analysis of the transformative mechanisms of the land use of this portion of the city, to be related to the more general urban history of Rome.…”
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Knowledge for the Enhancement between Memory and Contemporaneity: Pilgrim’s Old and New Routes in Historical Maps (15th-19th Centuries) by Leonardo Rombai

“…The text analyses the cartography produced between the late Middle Ages and the Unification of Italy (and the Carta d’Italia of the Military Survey Office): among the most important categories of documented sources for the history of viability and the area. …”
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‘Io nacqui Veneziano… e morrò per la grazia di Dio Italiano’. Centri e periferie nella narrativa di Ippolito Nievo by Stefania Segatori

“…‘I was born in Venice ... and will die Italian by God’s grace’  Centers and peripheries in Ippolito Nievo’s narrativeThe occasion of the 150 year anniversary of the unification of Italy and of the loss of the writer Ippolito Nievo Garibaldi (1831-1861) suggests a reading of the Nievian narrative, retracing the path advocated by Carlo Dionisotti and his investigatory method, which is without a doubt among the most innovative to be found in the last forty years of literary criticism. …”
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OLIMPIADI NAZIONALI DI LINGUA ITALIANA 2011 by Ugo Cardinale

“…</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>2011 national italian language olympics</strong></p> <p>This article presents the latest edition of the National Italian Language Olympics for all school levels, promoted by the MUIR, the Municipality of Florence, the Accademia della Crusca, the University of Florence, on occasion of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.  The article recounts the diverse institutional, regional and national phases.  …”
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‘A landmark of the transience of all earthly greatness, glory and power!’ Versailles and the Myth of the Ancien Régime in the Writings and Collections of the Swedish Marquis Claes... by Sabrina Norlander Eliasson

“…Whilst in Rome, he converted to the Roman Catholic faith, an important step in a social career that rapidly introduced him to the upper echelons of Roman nobility – and particularly to those families that had stayed true to the Pope in the aftermath of the unification of Italy. Lagergren was introduced to the Papal court and to Pope Leo XII, who favoured him. …”
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The earth sciences in the scientific letters of Giovanni Capellini by Graziano Ferrari, Massimo Caciagli

“…&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;"&gt;Professor of Geology at the University of Bologna from 1860, geologist, palaeontologist and archaeologist, in 1871 he organised, straight after the unification of Italy, the 5th International Congress in Archaeology and Prehistoric Anthropology, first in Italy, and in 1881 brought to Bologna, for the first time ever in Italy, the 2nd International Geological Congress. …”
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La Vérité sur les hommes et les choses du Royaume d’Italie. Etère, uomini, fatti del Servizio Segreto del Conte di Cavour by Tomaso Vialardi di Sandigliano

“…Three ideals of national unification appeared: a confederation of Italian states under leadership of the Pope (Vincenzo Gioberti); the unification of Italy under a federal republic (Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo); a confederation of separate states led by Piedmont (Cesare Balbo). …”
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I MISTERI DI NAPOLI TRA RETORICA ED ESPRESSIVITÀ by Mariella Giuliano

“…“I misteri di Napoli” from rhetoric to expressiveness  In social and literary landscape of late XIX century, Francesco Mastriani’s serial novel I Misteri di Napoli (1869-1870) was is a good example of how the Italian language was spread during a century that was crucial for linguistic unification in Italy. Aiming at creating direct contact with the audience, the author’s discursive strategies can be likened to those of the writers from the late XIX century. …”
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