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Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi.(Book Review)

History Today,  October, 2005  by Duggan, Christopher

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Rome or Death The Obsessions of General Garibaldi Daniel Pick Jonathan Cape 208 pp 16.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-224-07179-3

NO OTHER CITY CARRIES the same weight of symbolic baggage as Rome, and for Italian patriots of the Risorgimento the rescue of the Eternal City from the clutches of the papacy and its elevation into the capital of the Kingdom of Italy was far more than a simple matter of territorial adjustment. Rome summoned up images of universalism: of an empire that had miraculously spread in the course of a few centuries from a small settlement on seven hills across ...

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