Abstract
<p>Religious viewpoints occupied a special place in the revolutionary-democratic theory of Giuseppe Mazzini, a well-known political and social activist considered to be among the chief ideologues of Risorgimento. La Giovine Italia<em> (&laquo;Young Italy&raquo;), </em>the organization established by Mazzini, had as its slogan &laquo;Dio e Libert&agrave;!&raquo; &mdash; <em>&laquo;God and Liberty!&raquo;. </em>To demonstrate how important it is to study the religious aspect of the Italian unification concept in this article, the author made a brief excursion into the history and etymology of the word that named the era in question, with the following corollary: <em>Risorgimento </em>is synonymous with <em>Rinascimento, </em>it is a vague allusion to Jesus Christ&rsquo;s Resurrection. Additionally, the historical personage of 13<sup>th</sup>-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri had a profound influence on the formation of national thought about a free and unified state: Dante&rsquo;s so-called cult has been evolved. His philosophical treatises &laquo;The Convivio&raquo; and &laquo;De Monarchia&raquo; are used when analyzing Dante&rsquo;s views on the idea of Italy&rsquo;s unification. Such concepts &mdash; both Mazzini&rsquo;s and Alighieri&rsquo;s &mdash; are concluded to be seen in a utopian context.</p>
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