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Carlo Pisacane's La Rivoluzione. Revolution. An Alternative Answer to the Italian Question Leicester: Matador, 2010. Translated and introduced by Richard Mann Roberts. ISBN 978-1848764484.
Richard Mann Roberts introduces Carlo Pisacane and one of his most significant pieces of writing, La Rivoluzione, for the first time to English-speaking readers.
Pisacane (1818-1857), a remarkable figure in the history of Italian unification, is mostly remembered for the dramatic ending of his insurrectionary attempt in Southern Italy in 1857, when he and dozens of his companions were killed by the Bourbon army and the inhabitants they wished to liberate.
As underlined in Roberts' introduction, translation of writings by the protago- nists of the Italian Risorgimento has mostly focused on those key figures (Mazzini, Cavour, Garibaldi and King Victor II) who have also been used as foundation myths for the legitimisation of the new nation-state. Other protagonists such as the feder- alist Carlo Cattaneo or the social revolutionary Pisacane,...