Word: risorgimento
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...aviator sunglasses. "Sure we know that Italians tend to be self-centered. But when called to do something serious, we respond." In Italy, the iconography of Garibaldi - a dashing figure with piercing eyes and a mane of hair - has been massaged by virtually every generation since the 1815-70 Risorgimento established the modern country we know today. Mussolini cited Garibaldi's nationalist determination as the precursor of fascism, while leftists have claimed him for his battles over equality and anticlericalism. Still, few deny that Garibaldi's combination of charisma, courage and integrity was pivotal to the birth of the nation...
...Italy, the iconography of Garibaldi - a dashing figure with piercing eyes and a mane of hair - has been massaged by virtually every generation since the 1815-70 Risorgimento established the modern country we know today. Mussolini cited Garibaldi's nationalist determination as the precursor of fascism, while leftists have claimed him for his battles over equality and anticlericalism. Now, 200 years after his birth on July 4, 1807, Garibaldi is again being dusted off by local councils and national politicians as the essence of heroic italianit...
...custard cream, which was a sort of sandwich cookie with some smegma-like yellow goo between its baked bits; a wafer with some raisins stuck in it, known in our family as "squashed fly biscuits" but more properly called Garibaldi biscuits (though God knows what the hero of the Risorgimento had to do with it); an iced bun, which was a tube of dough and air (mostly air) with some white frosting on top; or a sticky bun, which was, well, pretty much what it sounds like...
POLITICAL ACTIVIST ARIANNA HUFFINGton is the Betsy Ross of America's current conservative risorgimento [REPUBLICANS, Nov. 6]. In a recent TV debate, she was impressive as she made cogent and compassionate arguments in a heated exchange with veteran leftists Betty Friedan and Karen Burstein. Huffington for President in 2000? ROBERT D. LEVINE New York City
...threat by Pope Clement XII, who issued the first papal edict that ordered excommunication of any Catholics who became Masons. Masons were often regarded as subversive political freethinkers by the Italian principalities. By the mid-19th century, in fact, many of the most prominent nationalist leaders of the Italian risorgimento were Masons. Among them: Giuseppe Mazzini and the notoriously antipapal Giuseppe Garibaldi...