Abstract:Contrary to current historical reconstructions, far from being just a secular project, the Italian Risorgimento had deep spiritual foundations. Though collapsing with the unwillingness of the pope to give up his temporal power, the project of “resurrection” of freedom of religion in modern Italy became an anti-clerical project though not necessarily anti-Christian. On the one side, radical free church Protestants generally supported the Republican ideals of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi, while on the… Show more
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