Word: risorgimento
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This pleasant boring life might have continued but for Italy's Risorgimento. Everywhere patriotic Italians, with deathless heroism and the blessings of English liberals, were conspiring to upset the rudiments of order which Austria had almost succeeded in imposing on parts of the Peninsula. Teresa Guiccioli's father and brother, the Gambas, were patriots and revolutionists. Encouraged by them, Byron joined the Carbonari...
...President Conant for a few minutes, Harper Woodward, President Conant's secretary, then led the party a personally-conducted tour of Widener Library, the Memorial Chapel, the Indoor Athletic Building, and Lowell House, with especial attention to the H. Nelson Gay collection of books and pamphlets on the Italian Risorgimento in Widener
Professor Salvemini will also conduct a Seminar Course during the second half-year on Modern Italian History, dealing especially with the period of the Risorgimento. This course is designed to show the graduate students in History the use of the enormous amount of material for research on this subject now in the University Library...
...general re-marshalling of its strength will be necessary if this present model of the Crimson six intends to stage a risorgimento. The best defense is an offense and as soon as a team gets the attacking idea it goes places, provided of course it's got the necessary ingredients. And it's pretty generally admitted that the hockey squad meets almost all the requirements. Judging from the season's showing, the Harvard offensive seems to have been working under wraps, and for no really good reason. Both forward trios could well afford to throw their cautions to the wind...
Cagle was the main spring of the Army's startling second-half risorgimento. His amazing slipperiness and strong running carried him over the last Harvard line three times during the afternoon and never could one feel that he would not break loose again. During the first half, the Crimson ends forced him in and the aggressive line dropped him in his tracks, but the meteoric Cadet captain could not be denied once he got under...