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Poemi del Risorgimento

work by Pascoli

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The Poemi del Risorgimento is a collection of nationalistic and historic poems by the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli. The Risorgimento itself was a 19th-century movement for Italian unification, characterized by ideological and literary efforts to arouse national consciousness and unite the Italian people politically. While Pascoli's earlier works focused on nature and domestic themes, his later poems, including those in Poemi del Risorgimento, explored loftier subjects such as Roman heritage and the concept of a "greater Italy".1234

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