Introduction: Risorgimento as an unfinished story / N orma Bouchard
Rethinking the Risorgimento? / John A. Davis
Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo and postwar Italian political culture / Marco Cupolo
Luciano Bianciardi and the blasphemy of miracles / Mark Pietralunga
The prism of Risorgimento in Vincenzo Consolo's ll sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio / Ruth Glynn
Risorgimento as fragmented body-politics: the case of Anna Banti's Noi credevamo / Norma Bouchard Travesties of Risorgimento in Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's La briganta / Cinzia di Giulio
Notes from an invisible orchestra: Gesualdo Bufalino as historical novelist / Walter Zampieri
Reopening the Risorgimento archive: spectrality and utopia in Antonio Tabucchi's Piazza d'Italia / Norma Bouchard
Of Garibaldini and Pugnalatori: revolution and reaction in Sciascia's Sicily / Mark Chu
Consolo and the fictions of history / Robert S. Dombroski
Unification in postwar Italian cinema: 1954-1974 / Fulvio S. Orsitto
From modern historical revisionism to postmodern skepticism: Risorgimento in Magni's cinema / Valerio Ferme.