An american kaleidoscope for the long Risorgimento

The author of this paper expresses his agreement with the long perspective adopted by Axel Körner for his study of American influences on the Italian Risorgimento, though he addresses his remarks mainly to the last decades of the Settecento and to the beginnings of the nineteenth century. He shares, in particular, Körner's contention that «the idea of America as a model for the Italian Risorgimento was at leastly partly an American projection». [Publisher's text].