• The best books on Italy’s Risorgimento - The Nation of the Risorgimento: Kinship, Sanctity and Honour in the Origins of Unified Italy by Alberto Mario Banti
  • The best books on Italy’s Risorgimento - The Antiquity of the Italian Nation: The Cultural Origins of Political Myth in Modern Italy by Antonino De Francisco
  • The best books on Italy’s Risorgimento - Risorgimento in Exile: Italian Emigrés and the Liberal International in the Post-Napoleonic Era by Maurizio Isabella
  • The best books on Italy’s Risorgimento - Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero by Lucy Riall
  • The best books on Italy’s Risorgimento - Monarchie et Identité Nationale en Italie (1861-1900) by Catherine Brice

The best books on Italy’s Risorgimento, recommended by Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti

Italian unification was one of the great political dramas of 19th century Europe, transforming a patchwork of territories speaking different languages into the nation-state of Italy. Here, historian Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti discusses the people and ideas that brought it about and how its disputed legacy continues to impact Italy today.

  • The best books on Italian Political Philosophy - Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli, trans. Harvey Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov
  • The best books on Italian Political Philosophy - The New Science of Giambattista Vico: Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) by Giambattista Vico, trans. Max Harold Fisch and Thomas Goddard Bergin
  • The best books on Italian Political Philosophy - The History of European Liberalism by Guido De Ruggiero, trans. R. G. Collingwood
  • The best books on Italian Political Philosophy - Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci, trans. Joseph A. Buttigieg and Antonio Callari
  • The best books on Italian Political Philosophy - Liberalism and Democracy by Norberto Bobbio, trans. Martin Ryle and Kate Soper

The best books on Italian Political Philosophy, recommended by Guglielmo Verdirame

Italy has a rich tradition of political philosophy, producing a number of thinkers with both practical experience and a cosmopolitan outlook. Here Guglielmo Verdirame, Professor of International Law at King’s College London, talks us through the five most important Italian political philosophers, and the best books to read to understand their work.