Example sentences for: risorgimento

How can you use “risorgimento” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Via Venti Settembre `20th of September Street' illustrates the Italian propensity for naming streets after historic dates, in this case the date of the breach in the ancient fortification wall of Rome, through which Italian troops stormed the city to bring the Risorgimento to an end.

  • The last 10 words in the 1998 national spelling bee included "prairillon," "daedal," "parrhesia," "risorgimento," and "maieutic."

  • This proud university town — Galileo taught physics here from 1592 to 1610 — was a major center of the Risorgimento reunification movement.

  • Linked to La Maddalena by a 7–km- (4–mile-) long causeway, the isle of Caprera was the last home of Giuseppe Garibaldi, military leader of the Risorgimento movement for Italian unity (see page 32).

  • One result of this growth was an abundance of new streets that needed names; the worthies of the Risorgimento largely filled the bill.


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