SOURCE: "The Risorgimento Debate: Mazzini and Gioberti," in The Marble Wilderness: Ruins and Representation in Italian Romanticism, 1775-1850, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 136-57.
In the following essay, Springer examines the importance of archaeological metaphors relating to the classical Roman past as part of the nationalist rhetoric of the democratic movement in Italy.
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