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34 - A Devil and a Panther

Talking History: The Italian Unification by Benjamin & Adam Ashwell

Dec 8, 201448:24Society & Culture

The poetic, heroic, and tragic defense was burned indelibly into the memory and imagination of Italian patriots, for whom the city of Rome would now forever be inextricably linked to the very idea of Italian nationalism....

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