In these days of events related to the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy and in the public controversy that follow for some time, we often hear objections from some quarters around the league, the emphasis rhetoric surrounding the events of the Risorgimento. Once again we are faced with a demystification of the events of the Risorgimento by those unfamiliar with the story or worse, wants to radically change the second their political demands. Besides, it takes little to understand that the facts are not just as men in the green underline. In aid of this argument, there was a beautiful exhibition in Rome at the Quirinal stables that I was lucky enough to visit last trip to the capital in December. It was a show entirely devoted to the painters of the Renaissance by true patriots represent what was even before the fighting at the time, took part directly to them. Moreover, among these patriots-painters, the most representative of Milan named Jerome Induno riddled by French bayonets during an assault on the Casino Barberini, Giovanni Fattori who participated in the Tuscan spirit Risorgimento to the war through actions of leaflets and other Euleterio Pagliano Lombard origin. Painters in the hard time of the battle have been able to represent crudely what they faced by reversing the scale of values \u200b\u200bby making visible those who up to that point were the invisible ones, valuing the humble compared to the military headquarters. A translation into images of the principles of equality and brotherhood practiced by Mazzini. The Northern League should embrace an anti rhetoric we have seen not only as the source of many patriots, especially in capturing the price of nation-building. The exhibition in Rome I had the opportunity and pleasure of looking at paintings in which large bodies of soldiers excelled tired and sad with "physical and mental suffering and everything that happened, unfortunately," as the same factors noted in his war diary.
During the visit in the halls of the Stables often pondered how the art is always in advance of reality. A closer look, and how the exhibition catalog explains, already Francesco Hayez in the aftermath of the riots of 1848-'49 had offered an anticipatory image of Italy with an allegorical painting in which a tousled-haired girl at the head slightly tilted half-length, has an anguished look and holds up a crucifix. In this way Hayez wants us to understand that Italy is no longer the beautiful girl admired but until then a girl living martyrdom of the country at the hands of the Austrians. From Hayez factors in the most representative of Florence Macchiaioli is a short step. Factors with his paintings was one of the most enthusiastic supporter of the Risorgimento and master for Jerome Induno, Euleterio Pagliano Michele Cammarano and that the stables have exhibited paintings of great expressiveness to the facts that we tell. Induno participated directly in the defense of the Roman Republic as a volunteer partisan and Piedmontese in 1855 was hired by the army in the War of Vrimea. From his vast experience has led "campaign Tchernaya" a painting completed in 1857 on the basis of the immense material accumulated during the experience Garibaldi. Will the same Induno one of the most accredited reporters is for images that I captured for his writings, to tell the battles of the Second War of Independence. Another canvas Induno deserves to be highlighted for the beauty and pathos that is able to convey: "Departure from Fourth" is almost a chronicle of the event Garibaldi, a portrait of rare and sublime effect (the beauty of war!). For the Neapolitan Michele Cammarrata instead the honor of having his "The Charge of the sharpshooters at Porta Pia," as the main poster of the exhibition in question. This large painting has been said that rightly or wrongly may be regarded as an icon or if you want the seal to the Risorgimento "that in the heat and dynamic proto future of these young people launched in the middle of the race to conquer Rome express the feeling that a dream finally came true."
And this dream there is no league that can take away.
Francesco Hayez "Meditation" 
Jerome Induno "Country Tchernaya" 
Jerome Induno "Departure from Fourth" 
Michele Camarato "The Charge of the sharpshooters at Porta Pia" 
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