This controversial and groundbreaking study proposes a compelling reinterpretation of the political thought of one Italy's founding fathers, Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), and in the process suggests a new approach to understanding the origins of fascist ideology.

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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.

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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