Volume 19, Number 5 · October 5, 1972
Romance and the Risorgimento
By Luigi Barzini
Victor Emanuel, Cavour, and the Risorgimento
by Denis Mack Smith
Oxford, 396 pp., $22.50
Vittorio Emanuele II
by Denis Mack Smith, translated by Joli Bertolazzi
Láterza (Bari, Italy), 387 pp., $8.75
Denis Mack Smith, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, has dedicated a large part of his professional life to Italy, to Italian history, and, more particularly, to the fateful years between 1848 and 1870, when the country finally managed to be unified under one king and one law. He is now moving up a half century and preparing a book on the fascist era, which he considers the unfortunate and almost inevitable consequence of the shortcomings of the Risorgimento, its 'poisoned fruits.'
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