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• 1 media/letteremeridionale.jpg 2018-10-30T16:42:04-07:00 The Life and Times of Pasquale Villari 23 Rebel, Historian, and Politician image_header 2018-11-25T01:55:48-08:00
  Pasquale Villari was an active supporter of a unified Italy from his early days as a rebel in Naples to his student days in Florence, his trip to England in 1862s and throughout his career as a politician days of a young Italian Republic. The Story Map below follows his travels and the positions he occupied in higher education and government well into the early twentieth century.
  
  
• 1 2018-11-17T19:06:30-08:00 The Risorgimento: Between Italy and England 5 Major Actors and Events gallery 2018-11-17T19:15:13-08:00 Throughout the nineteenth century, British intellectuals, politicians, and everyday people supported efforts on behalf of Italian nationalists to unify the Italian peninsula under one centralized secular state. Below, and in the media above, are some well-known examples of Italians in England whose nationalist goals received support and acclaim through the long century:
  
  
  • Ugo Foscolo, Poet, born in Greece, 1788, died in London, 1827. The video attached features an audio recording of his poetry, and an English translation can be found here.
  • Giuseppe Mazzini, born in Genoa in 1805, died in Genoa in 1872, exiled to London, 1837-1843. Mazzini remained an active figure and parti-time inhabitant of London through the 1850s. He is remembered as a hero of the republic in a 1949 video celebrating a statute erected in his honor.
  • Pasquale Villari, historian and politician, attended the London International Exhibit in 1862 where he was invited to serve as Juror.
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian Unification Activist, traveled to London in April, 1864. He received a hero's welcome, and was lauded as a "Victorian Celebrity." A contemporary print and the New York Times article from April 28, 1864 record impressions of the event.