Mirror of national density

Dr Vitali has selected a series ofphotographs ofthe Italian wars of liberation which in a number of campaigns between 1848 and 1870 succeeded in turning Italy into a national state. Before the Risorgimento Italy had been, as Metternich called it, a ‘mere geographical expression’. Numerous museums and archives were founded after the liberation to preserve the story, and to give national consciousness to a people used to a variety of loyalties. …