Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Italian Unity and International Alliances; 1. Romantic Italy and Restoration Politics: Romantic Poetry, Lady Morgan’s Italy and Mary Shelley’s Valperga; 2. Italian Exiles from Young Italy to 1848: Risorgimento Refugees in Giovanni Ruffini’s Lorenzo Benoni and Doctor Antonio; 3. Spying in the British Post Office: Letter-Opening, Italy and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White; 4. Wounded Utterance: Trauma and Italy’s Second War of Independence in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems Before Congress and Last Poems; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.