Collier, Martin (2003). Italian unification, 1820–71. Heinemann Advanced History (First изд.). Oxford: Heinemann. стр. 2. ISBN978-0-435-32754-5. „The Risorgimento is the name given to the process that ended with the political unification of Italy in 1871”
Riall, Lucy (1994). The Italian Risorgimento: state, society, and national unification (First изд.). London: Routledge. стр. 1. ISBN978-0-203-41234-3. „The functional importance of the Risorgimento to both Italian politics and Italian historiography has made this short period (1815–60) one of the most contested and controversial in modern Italian history”