Definition of Risorgimento

1. Noun. The political and military movement that led to the unification of Italy in the nineteenth century ¹

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Definition of Risorgimento

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Risorgimento

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Literary usage of Risorgimento

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"(2) THE LITERATURE OF THE Risorgimento AND AFTER (1846-1870) During this period it might almost be said that the engrossing interest of warfare and politics ..."

2. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1906)
"The Risorgimento, which has come to be accepted as the specific name for the movement ... For strangers, the Risorgimento offers the most remarkable modern ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Italian word, "risorgimento" means literally "rising again." In some of its verb forms the word is seen to be cognate with our "resurrect. ..."

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