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Risorgimento|rɪˌsɔːdʒɪˈmɛntəʊ|
Also risorgimento.
[It., = renewal, renaissance.]
1. The movement which led to the unification of Italy as an independent state with its capital at Rome in 1870.
1889J. A. R. Marriott Makers Mod. Italy ii. 38 In 1847 Cavour, in conjunction with Santa Rosa, Cesare Balbo, and others, founded a new journal, named the Risorgimento, for the purpose of disseminating constitutional ideas of government. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 628/2 Few dates in modern European history equal in significance that of 20th September 1870, when the Italian troops under General Cadorna took possession of Rome in the name of the Italian nation, and completed at one stroke..the work of the Risorgimento. 1902G. Meredith Let. 15 Apr. (1970) III. 1436 Mazzini..never wavered in the faith he had that their sacrifices would lead to the Risorgimento. 1905Mrs. H. Ward Marriage W. Ashe iv. xviii. 363 He had sat late with his hosts,—men prominent in the Risorgimento, and in the politics of the new Kingdom,—discussing the latest intricacies of the Roman situation and the prospects of Italian finance. 1910W. H. Griffin Life Robert Browning x. 158 The events of the risorgimento. 1933N. & Q. 4 Mar. 161/2 The Risorgimento was..kept free from that violence of popular fury..which touches both the French and the Russian re-making of the nation with a sort of devilishness. 1937A. Huxley Ends & Means x. 155 Before the Risorgimento the Austrians governed Italy by means of gendarmes, spies and agents provocateurs. 1955Times 6 June 8/7 Count Alessandro Casati, one of Italy's elder statesmen and a true representative of the Italian liberal tradition of the Risorgimento, died on Saturday night. 1957Sunday Times 8 Dec. 7/6 The Risorgimento heroes. 1961Listener 19 Oct. 611/1 The partisan movement [in Italy] and the second Risorgimento which followed. 1977New Yorker 2 May 101/1 Prosperity united Italy in ways the risorgimento never had.
2. transf. A revitalization or renewal of activity in any sphere.
1957R. Chase in Partisan Rev. Summer 369 The poetic risorgimento of Ezra Pound and his group. 1959Listener 17 Dec. 1062/2 This has been more than an economic and industrial risorgimento. 1978Ld. Birkenhead R. Kipling xv. 215 The lethargy and frivolity of his own countrymen, upon whom he now turned..his indignation in a passionate but vain attempt to inspire a risorgimento. |