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In this seminal work, Lamberto Vitali presents a systematic and richly illustrated study of the role of photography during the Italian Risorgimento era. The volume brings together around 210 black-and-white photographs—depicting key events, protagonists and places of the mid-19th-century unification movement—and examines how photographic imagery functioned as historical document, propaganda tool, and visual memory of the nation-building process. Vitali’s approach merges art-historical and photographic studies perspectives, situating the images within social and political contexts and discussing their authorship, circulation and meaning. The book thereby contributes to the development of photographic historiography in Italy and opens a visual dimension of the Risorgimento often neglected in traditional narratives.