A historian compares the Risorgimento with the Resistance. What continuity does the 1948 Constitution suggest between them?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Both are presented as struggles for freedom and dignity that the Republic inherits
- Step 1: Italian civic memory often links the nineteenth-century fight for independence to the anti-fascist fight of 1943-45, sometimes called a second Risorgimento. Step 2. The Republic's founding values of liberty, equality and national unity draw on both. Answer: struggles for freedom and national dignity inherited by the Republic. Why not the others: neither movement was a struggle for monarchy or an economic reform, and neither was a foreign occupation.
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