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The article offers information on "Italia Mia" (My Italy), a collection of article which focuses on the importance of acknowledging alternative dimensions of important figures' lives in Ireland in the nineteenth century. It mentions that the collection highlights the activities and lifestyles of several Irish visitors to Italy along with their micro-history. It examines the impact of movement across borders on transcultural discourses, communities, and histories.

The Dante narrative is one of the key narratives of nineteenth-century Italy in the self-fashioning of Italian patriotism. This article looks at the momentum behind the project to commemorate Dante in Florence in the early decades of the nineteenth century; it also considers the effect of the outsider gaze on remedying the absence of reminders of the poet in the city; and the beginnings of the utilization of Dante for political and national purposes. It addresses the memorial cult of Dante within a proto-nationalist framework, a cult which was led by Italians, but to which awareness of foreign commentary made an important contribution. The project of raising a monument to Dante in Florence in the pre-unification period provides a case study for the close examination of many entangled concerns. An examination of monuments in the formative stages of the Risorgimento reveals their extreme potency and ability to provide concrete examples of how collective myths and memories are mapped onto a landscape. Furthermore, the monument to Dante in Santa Croce shows how politics, ideology and literature combined to bring the project to fruition and to contribute to the evolving nineteenth-century Dante narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the reaction to Garibaldi in Ireland during the Risorgimento, a reaction which, in its negativity, generally contrasted with the Italian's heroic depiction elsewhere. Attitudes towards Garibaldi reflected existing religious divisions in Ireland, with Protestants supporting him and Catholics condemning his actions in Italy. The study examines ballads, pamphlets and newspapers to illustrate the pro-papal fervour felt in Ireland and the strength of anti-Garibaldi feelings. The decision of Irishmen to form a battalion to fight in defence of the Papal States in 1860 reveals that, ultimately, denigration of Garibaldi became a badge of Irish nationalism. The study highlights the position of Britain in understanding the relationship between Ireland and Italy in these years, pointing out Irish nationalists' bafflement over Britain's support for Italian unification while it denied similar rights to Irish subjects. The article demonstrates how, in this context, domestic and tactical considerations coloured responses to Garibaldi in Ireland, with Irish issues projected onto the Italian situation, thus leading to entrenched and extreme attitudes towards the Italian soldier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the duel between soldier Gabriele Pepe and romantic poet and French diplomat Alphonse de Lamartine on February 19, 1826 outside Porta San Frediano in Florence, Italy. The two men were fighting over the issue of Italy being the so-called terra dei morti. The origin of this duel can be traced to the poem "Le Dernier Chant du pèlerinage d'Harold" by Lamartine. Lamartine described Italy as a place asleep in the midst of a universe in motion.