Dante Alighieri and Risorgimento: Religious Aspect of Historical Connection

Religious viewpoints occupied a special place in the revolutionary-democratic theory of Giuseppe Mazzini, a well-known political and social activist considered to be among the chief ideologues of Risorgimento. La Giovine Italia (Young Italy), the organization established by Mazzini, had as its slogan Dio e Libert! God and Liberty!. To demonstrate how important it is to study the religious aspect of the Italian unification concept in this article, the author made a brief excursion into the history and etymology of the word that named the era in question, with the following corollary: Risorgimento is synonymous with Rinascimento, it is a vague allusion to Jesus Christs Resurrection. Additionally, the historical personage of 13th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri had a profound influence on the formation of national thought about a free and unified state: Dantes so-called cult has been evolved. His philosophical treatises The Convivio and De Monarchia are used when analyzing Dantes views on the idea of Italys unification. Such concepts both Mazzinis and Alighieris are concluded to be seen in a utopian context.