Word: risorgimento
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat by Pope Clement XII, who issued the first papal edict that ordered excommunication of any Catholics who became Masons. Masons were often regarded as subversive political freethinkers by the Italian principalities. By the mid-19th century, in fact, many of the most prominent nationalist leaders of the Italian risorgimento were Masons. Among them: Giuseppe Mazzini and the notoriously antipapal Giuseppe Garibaldi...
...were at the gates of Rome, it was wildly successful at its 1846 premiere in Venice. A line in the prologue inflamed the imagination of a people yearning for national unification: "You can have the universe," sings Ezio, a Roman general, to Attila, "but leave Italy to me." In Risorgimento Italy, these were fighting words, and audiences recognized them as such...
...chugged along its early morning run from Monte Mario to Piazza del Risorgimento with 50 office-bound passengers aboard. As it paused in traffic near an open-air fruit-and-vegetable stand, a mustached, black-haired youth steadied his revolver on the shoulder of an old woman passenger and fired seven times. Three of the bullets hit their mark: Appeals Court Judge Girolamo Minervini, 61, was killed instantly...