Editing Unification of Italy (section)

===Literature===
[[File:Francesco Hayez 040.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Alessandro Manzoni]] is famous for the novel ''[[The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.<ref name="britannica">{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Manzoni|title=Alessandro Manzoni &#124; Italian author|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|date=18 May 2023}}</ref> He contributed to the nationwide use of the Italian language.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://manzoni.classicauthors.net/IPromessiSposiOrTheBetrothed/IPromessiSposiOrTheBetrothed1.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718073016/http://manzoni.classicauthors.net/IPromessiSposiOrTheBetrothed/IPromessiSposiOrTheBetrothed1.html|url-status=dead|title=I Promessi sposi or The Betrothed|archivedate=18 July 2011}}</ref>]]
The most well known writer of Risorgimento is [[Alessandro Manzoni]], whose works are a symbol of the Italian unification, both for its patriotic message and because of his efforts in the development of the modern, unified [[Italian language]]. He is famous for the novel ''[[The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (orig. Italian: ''I Promessi Sposi'') (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of [[world literature]].

[[Vittorio Alfieri]], was the founder of a new school in the Italian drama, expressed in several occasions his suffering about the foreign domination's tyranny.

[[Ugo Foscolo]] describes in his works the passion and love for the fatherland and the glorious history of the [[Italian people]]; these two concepts are respectively well expressed in two masterpieces, ''[[The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis]]'' and ''[[Dei Sepolcri]]''.

[[Vincenzo Monti]], known for the [[Italian language|Italian]] translation of the ''[[Iliad]]'', described in his works both enthusiasms and disappointments of Risorgimento until his death.

[[Giovanni Berchet]] wrote a poetry characterized by a high moral, popular and social content; he also contributed to ''[[Il Conciliatore]]'', a progressive bi-weekly scientific and literary journal, influential in the early [[Risorgimento]] that was published in [[Milan]] from September 1818 until October 1819 when it was closed by the Austrian censors; its writers included also [[Ludovico di Breme]], [[Giuseppe Nicolini (writer)|Giuseppe Nicolini]], and [[Silvio Pellico]].

[[Giacomo Leopardi]] was one of the most important poets of Risorgimento thanks to works such as ''[[Giacomo Leopardi#First Canti|Canzone all'Italia]]'' and ''[[Giacomo Leopardi#Il Risorgimento|Risorgimento]]''.

[[File:Francesco De Sanctis ritratto.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Portrait of [[Francesco De Sanctis]] (1890) by [[Francesco Saverio Altamura]]]]
[[Niccolò Tommaseo]], the editor of the ''Italian Language Dictionary'' in eight volumes, was a precursor of the [[Italian irredentism]] and his works are a rare examples of a metropolitan culture above nationalism; he supported the liberal revolution headed by [[Daniele Manin]] against the [[Austrian Empire]] and he will always support the unification of Italy.

[[Francesco de Sanctis]] was one of the most important scholars of Italian language and literature in the 19th century; he supported the [[Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states|Revolution of 1848]] in [[Naples]] and for this reason he was imprisoned for three years; his reputation as a lecturer on [[Dante]] in [[Turin]] brought him the appointment of professor at [[ETH Zürich]] in 1856; he returned to [[Naples]] as Minister of Public Education after the unification of Italy.

The writer and patriot [[Luigi Settembrini]] published anonymously the ''Protest of the People of the Two Sicilies'', a scathing indictment of the Bourbon government and was imprisoned and exiled several times by the Bourbons because of his support to Risorgimento; after the formation of the Kingdom of Italy, he was appointed professor of [[Italian literature]] at the [[University of Naples]].

[[Ippolito Nievo]] is another main representative of Risorgimento with his novel ''[[Ippolito Nievo|Confessioni d'un italiano]]''; he fought with [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]]'s [[Expedition of the Thousand]].

The Risorgimento was also depicted in famous novels: ''[[The Leopard]]'' written by [[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa]], ''[[Heart (novel)|Heart]]'' by [[Edmondo De Amicis]], and ''[[The Little World of the Past]]'' by [[Antonio Fogazzaro]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.giorgioweiss.it/node/120|title=Risorgimento e poesia – Giorgio Weiss|publisher=Giorgioweiss.it|access-date=30 September 2014|archive-date=22 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222040120/http://www.giorgioweiss.it/node/120|url-status=dead}}</ref>