Giuseppe Mazzini and the Origins of Fascism

Simon Levis Sullam is an Associate Professor of Modern History at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy. He has been an Andrew W. Mellon Postodctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, USA; a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy; and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK.

Introduction: The Appropriation of Mazzini and the Crisis of Italian Democracy 1. Giuseppe Mazzini and the Religion of the Nation 2. From Poetry to Prose 3. Mazzini in the New Century 4. The Nation's Duties between War and Postwar 5. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Religion of the Nation Conclusion: A Religion of the Nation without a Civil Religion Afterword: Mazzini, the Risorgimento, and the Origins of Fascism