Vittoriano
Giuseppe Mazzini’s vision
One of the fathers of the Risorgimento imagined a place in Rome that was so high up that it would soar above the vestiges of antiquity and the Christian world
In 1859, in the midst of the Risorgimento process, Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) once again reiterated that the capital of the future Kingdom of Italy must undoubtedly be Rome. In so doing, he evoked an image of a place in the centre of the Eternal City that was so high up as to dominate both the pagan Capitoline Hill and the capital of Christendom, St. Peter’s at the Vatican.
Photograph of Giuseppe Mazzini, 1860
