Patriotic pilgrimages during the Italian liberal period: sites and terminology

Patriotic pilgrimages during the Italian liberal period: sites and terminology

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The Rear Foot article aims to analyze the phenomenon of "laic pilgrimage": the trips that during the first fifty years of Italian unity, saw the places of memory as the protagonists of the Risorgimento.Specifically will be analyzed the trips to ossuaries, battlefields, monuments and tombs of the fathers of the Nation.The text try to create a map - on a national scale - Baby of the places of pilgrimage divided according to the "users".To different destinations, in fact, correspond different types of pilgrimage, mirrors of Italian political situation of this period.