Risorgimento in Exile, paperback edition, November 2015

‘This is a truly global history of the early nineteenth century, which brings together events in Italy, Greece, northwestern Europe and Latin America in a completely novel way’ Christopher Bayly, University of Cambridge ‘A book of originality and depth. In a meticulously researched and argued study, Isabella shows how international in reach the Risorgimento was and the extent to which political ideas about the nation were formed in a constant conversation between foreigners and Italians, between exiles from Italy and intellectuals in their host countries. In the process, he offers us a more positive view of the Risorgimento than the one often advanced’ Lucy Riall, Times Literary Supplement ‘Isabella’s analytical approach to the intersecting histories of exile, liberalism, and nationalism offers valuable new insights into the transnational exchanges and conflicts that shaped influential strands of early nineteenth-century Italian thought’ American Historical Review ‘What emerges is the European and modern face of the Risorgimento as an integral part of the great ideological and political currents of the time . . . thus it transpires that the ultimate, specifically liberal outcome of the Risorgimento has deeper roots than had been thought . . . a serious and important book, written with both passion and thoughtful conviction’ Giuseppe Galasso, Corriere della Sera ‘Isabella offers us a serious, provocative, and bold book that challenges the received notions about nineteenth-century nationalism and the sites of national identity making’ Marta Petrusewicz, The Journal of Modern History ‘Isabella has written a complex and challenging volume on the development of liberalism . . . It ranks as an important study of liberalism as an emerging European ideology in the post-Napoleonic era’ Frederick Rosen, Journal of Utilitas RISORGIMENTO IN EXILE ‘This is an impressive case study of the intellectual development of Italian exiles in the period 1815–35, ambitiously placing them in a transnational, even world context. In the field of Risorgimento history, it breaks new ground in reassessing pre-Mazzini activism and its impact on later generations. In the field of post-Napoleonic Europe, it provides a methodology for exploring diverse aspects of the anti-Metternich discourse and how those strands were intertwined together: it will be essential reading for historians of this period. Based on an impressive command of sources in French and Spanish (as well as the author’s native Italian) the work also has a broader resonance for any historian wishing to consider transnational intellectual currents, their possibilities and limits, and even offers lessons for the present-day European Union. The quality of writing and the breadth of research in this work make it a real scholarly achievement.’ Gladstone Prize Committee ISABELLA DECLARED PROXIME ACCESSIT FOR THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY GLADSTONE PRIZE 2009 2 RISORGIMENTO IN EXILE Italian Émigrés and the Liberal International in the Post-Napoleonic Era Cover illustration: Francesco Hayez, ‘I profughi di Parga’ [‘The refugees of Parga’; 1831], Courtesy of the Civici Musei d’Arte e Storia, Brescia, Italy. 2 1 MAURIZIO ISABELLA