Amore e rivoluzione al tempo del Risorgimento. Enrichetta Di Lorenzo e Carlo Pisacane

Between 1847 and 1857, Carlo Pisacane and Enrichetta Di Lorenzo lived an exceptional decade in which their sentimental passion ended up leading them into the heart of the events that marked the century. This couple of the little nobility, fleeing from Naples for love and travelling throughout Europe, found themselves, in the name of their romantic ideals – borrowed from the readings of Rousseau and George Sand –, anticipating the revolutionary choices that will become crucial from 1848, totally overturning the common morality. Escaping from an ordinary world of conventions and restrictions, they immersed themselves fully in the extraordinary events of the Revolution. Enrichetta and Carlo did not live in a universe where “the heart is everything”, but they felt that their personal life had made them subjects of history, protagonists of an experience that announced the desire to build a different moral and political order.