The
Red Shirt and the Cross of Savoy,
the Story of Italy's Risorgimento
(NY:
Dodd, Mead, 1969)
"Let
it be clearly stated at the start that George Martin's huge volume
on the Italian Risorgimento represents an enviably successful literary
and historiographical performance... Martin has written excellent
history... There is not presently available in English another single
work that for its diligence, seriousness, and commitment succeeds
in doing greater justice to the politics of the Italian national
revolution in the nineteenth century...." A. William Salamone,
The Yale Review, Winter 1970, 268-278.
“Martin is well acquainted with Italy and has read widely
on this subject. Most important, he knows how to convey to the reader
his own fascination with the romantic theme of Italian unification…
The strength of Mr. Martin’s synthesis likes in the author’s
literary skill, his stress on the role of colorful individuals,
and his ability to illuminate many of the less well known bypaths
of Risorgimento history.” Charles F. Delzell, Nashville
Banner.
"Martin
ably discusses the delicate and thorny subject of church and state,
the conquest of the papal states, the annexation of Rome to the
newly formed kingdom of Italy and the Law of Guarantees which reduced
the Pope’s temporal power to villa Castel Gandolfo, the Lateran
Palaces and, of course, the Vatican. Alfonso D’Emilia, The
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Out
of print but second-hand copies can be found.
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