Il Risorgimento arruolato. Note sulle scritture dei soldati italiani nel 1915-18

The article analyzes the relationship among the intervention of Italy in the Great War and the tradition of the Risorgimento. After the end of the Triplex Alliance, the irredentism, the “liberation” of Trento and Trieste, the memory of the Risorgimento became the fulcrum of the legitimation of the Italian war. It was an omnipresent thematic, that the propaganda developed until the end of the conflict. Among the many available sources, the writings of the soldiers (diaries and letters) are an observatory of great interest to verify the levels of penetration and the limits of this ambitious operation.