On the occasion of the exhibition, VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia is publishing two volumes in a boxed set for Electa.
The first volume contains essays by Edith Gabrielli, Giuseppe Monsagrati, Maria Pia Critelli, Marco Pizzo, Giovanni Belardelli, Tsugumi Maki, Maureen C. O'Brien and Elisabetta Matteucci, which delve into the role Mazzini attributed to traditional and mass communication-as well as to the control and dissemination of his own public image-and illustrate the importance of Silvestro Lega's painting in the artist's stylistic journey and in the entire imagery of the republican movement.
The second volume is entirely devoted to VIVE's important and recent acquisition of the bust of Giuseppe Mazzini executed by Giovanni Spertini in 1878. The text places the work in the artistic and professional career of the Pavia sculptor, relating it to other products dedicated to Mazzini and more generally to the protagonists of the Risorgimento.
Both volumes are distinguished by a rich illustrative apparatus: the catalog, in particular, contains a sequence of portraits of the Genoese thinker made in the different artistic techniques and a real album on the painting by Silvestro Lega; the publication on Spertini and the results of the photographic campaign carried out for the occasion by Mauro Magliani.