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Which historical event provides the setting for Dante Gabriel Rossettiās poem The Last Confession?
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossettiās poem The Last Confession is a dramatic monologue set against the background of the Italian Risorgimento, the 19th-century movement for Italian unification and independence.1