Un laboratorio politico per l’Italia: La Repubblica romana del 1849 (in Italian)

A political laboratory for the creation of Italy: The Roman Republic of 1849
 
From the publishers
This rich volume is a collection of essays, documents and images recounting the places, the events, the protagonists, and the remembrance of the political foundations stones laid in 1849 in the construction of modern Italy.
This brief historical episode left a rich patrimony, and it is one which is worth rediscovering so as to savouring today the values without which it was not possible, at the time, to build the nation, and without which it would seem today difficult to live together in a civic society worthy of the name.
 
Fondation Napoléon
This volume (published with assistance from National committee for the commemorations for the bicentenary of the birth of Garibaldi) is a very useful addition to the literature, with its careful mixture of period documents and short insightful essays on the different elements related to the short-lived Roman republic (Christmas 1848-July 1849) ‘snuffed out' by the French republic under the Prince President, soon-to-be Napoleon III. In Italian.

Contents
The places
– Lauro Rossi, Rome in 1849
– Lauro Rossi, The wilderness around the city: the environmental conditions and the malaria
Notes and documents: The flight of the Pope, the Republic's agricultural policy
 
The events
The “Grande république” snuffs out the “Piccola Republica”
– Claudio Fracassi, The birth of an emperor: 13 June 1849 in Paris
– Franco Venturi, “Italie libre et unie”: French socialists and the defence of the Republic
– Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, A crusade against modernity: Quinet and the French intervention
– Adolfo Noto, Minister Tocqueville and the pontifical restoration
Notes and documents: 1. The programme of the triumvirate, 2. French protests in Rome in favour of the republic, 3. Palmerston and the British policy of non-intervention, 4. Marx and the French expedition to Rome
 
The protagonists
– Giuseppe Monsagrati, Romans under bombardment
– Antonietta Angelica Zucconi, The Bonapartes, revolution and reaction
– Marcello Teodonio, Spectacle of ruin, predictions of slaughter: Belli and Rome without the Pope
– Luciano Rossi, Bold, exceedingly bold, but limited vision: the Pisacane/Garibaldi contrast
– Anna Vilari, Art and artists in Rome during the Republic
Notes and documents: 1. The gates of the ghetto thrown down, 2. Mameli and the boys of 1848, 3. Episodes of terrorism in Rome: the Zambianchi affair, 4. Gavazzi and the organisation of the military ambulance
 
The remembrance
Giuseppe Spada
– A Roman who did not love the Republic, by Fausto Fonzi
– …but who admired Garibaldi, by Nicola Del Corno
From one republic to another
– Carlo Armellini, by Marco Severini
– Orazio de Attellis, by Lauro Rossi
– Sergio Raimondo, The Roman university battalion from Durando to Garibaldi
– Mario Cicogni, Protestants and the Republic: Diodati's bible
Notes and documents: 1. Mazzini and the Roman Constitution, 2. The first Italian translation of Bakunin, 3. Cattaneo and the proposal of an anti-French ‘bloc', 4. Ferdinando Gerardi and the remembrance of the Republic

The following online database of documents related to Roman republic of 1849, http://www.repubblicaromana-1849.it, was created by the editors as a complement to the volume.