Introduction: The Appropriation of Mazzini and the Crisis of Italian Democracy
1. Giuseppe Mazzini and the Religion of the Nation
2. From Poetry to Prose
3. Mazzini in the New Century
4. The Nation's Duties between War and Postwar
5. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Religion of the Nation
Conclusion: A Religion of the Nation without a Civil Religion
Afterword: Mazzini, the Risorgimento, and the Origins of Fascism