Polish Risorgimento : Visions of the Modern Polish Nation and their Italian Foundations.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Themes and perspectives -- Historiographical account and contribution to current research -- Methodology -- The actors of the study - the intelligentsia -- Time frame -- PART I: The democrats - from "alleanza dei popoli" to "Polonia fara da se" -- Introduction -- The Polish and Italian democratic nationalists -- First redefinitions of the nationhood -- Mutually inspired ideology of national mission -- 1 Path to independence: alleanza dei popoli 1848-60 -- 1.1. 'Self in the other'- Italian and Polish sibling nationsbefore 1848 -- 1.1.1 Together: Carboneria and Young Poland -- 1.1.2 Alone: republican partisan paradigm (Kościuszko and Mazzini) -- 1.2 The republican legion of Adam Mickiewicz in Italy, 1848-49 -- 1.3 In opposition to the monarchical facet of the Risorgimento 1848-51 -- 1.3.1 Against the legions in Italy - toward national egoism? -- 1.3.2 Critique of Italia fara da se 1851-60 -- 2 The lingering demise of Romantic ideology 1860-71 -- 2.1 Growing intransigence of the democrats -- 2.2 Questioning the Italian model -- 2.3. Last epigones and lasting emotions -- 3 Multi-cultural nation - the civil religion vs. Catholicism -- 3.1 The democrats' attitude to religion -- 3.2 Support for the Italians in their conflict with the Pope -- Conclusions: The peculiar legacy of the democrats: from solidarity of nations to national egoism -- PART II: Hôtel Lambert - 'A vote for Italy is a vote for Poland' -- Introduction -- Hôtel Lambert - conditions of exile -- Modus operandi - diplomacy, press, agents, networks -- 4 Risorgimento and the dawn of the 'principle of nationality' -- 4. 1 The genesis of the Roman and Piedmontese options -- 4.2 The uses of the growing significance of Italy as the centre of European attention -- 5 The Risorgimento and the Polish communication with 'Europe'.

5.1 Violence: Polish legions in Italy as an instrument of appeal to Europe -- 5.1.1 Legions in Piedmont and Rome -- 5.1.2 Poles as mediators of the alliance between Italy, Slavs and Turkey -- 5.1.3 Violence as a traditional right of free people to defence -- 5.2 National discourse - Italian 'principle of nationality' applied to the Polish case -- 5.2.1 For the same rights of the Italian and Polish nations -- 5.2.2 To make Italians out of Poles -- 5.2.3 Risorgimental metaphors in the Polish literary-linguistic sphere -- 6 Morals vs. pragmatics: a growing rift betweenthe Italians and Poles, 1861-71 -- 6.1 Polish "speranze" versus the reality, 1860-61 -- 6.2 The Polish-Italian relations towards new challenges, 1863-66 -- 6.3 Divisive effect of the Roman Question, 1860-71 -- Conclusions: The Risorgimento and the Legitimacy of Polish nation -- PART III: The conservatives:Risorgimental background of 'Pole Catholic' -- Introduction -- The quandary over the historiographical image of the revolutionary Pole Catholic -- The Church in Italy and Poland: a carrier of nationalidentity? -- 7 The Krakow conservatives against the revolutionary Risorgimento -- 7.1 Italian lawbreakers -- 7.1.1 Violation of European customs by the Italians, 1848-1860 -- 7.1.2 Misdeeds of the final stage of the Risorgimento, 1860-1871 -- 7.1.3 Pius IX: the foundation of peace and justice -- 7.2 Polish national survival through moderation, caution and tradition -- 7.2.1 Joining loyalism with patriotism - the alternative way of the Krakow group after 1866 -- 7.2.2 The Roman Question and the future of the Polish nation -- 8 The ultramontanes - Pole Catholic versus Italian dissenter -- 8.1 The ongoing degeneration of Italian morals -- 8.1.1 Early hopes set by the Italian moderates, 1848 -- 8.1.2 The rise of a dangerous pagan state in the 1860s.

8.1.3 The Italy of 1871: a picture of a post-revolutionary despair -- 8. 2 The moral condition of the nation above its political existence -- 8.2.1 The ultramontanes - disappointed revolutionaries seekingconsolation? -- 8.2.2 'Organic work' against Italianate struggle -- 8.2.3 'Piedmont and Russia, the Pope and Poland, these are the synonyms' -- Conclusions:Catholicism as a means of national resistance -- Conclusions -- Abstract -- Bibliography.