1. See the recent interpretation and anthology: A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzzini’s Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations, ed. Stefano Recchia and Nadia Urbinati, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. For a broader picture see Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism, 1830–1920, ed. C. A. Bayly and Eugenio F. Biagini, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. On the role of Mazzini in the education to democracy in his own times, Arianna Arisi-Rota, I piccoli cospiratori. Politica ed emozioni nei primi mazziniani, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010.
2. Norberto Bobbio, “L’utopia capovolta,” La Stampa, June 9, 1989, collected in the volume by the same title, Bobbio, L’utopia capovolta, Turin: La Stampa, 1990.
3. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), New York: Meridian Books, 1958, p. 159.
4. See most recently Mazzini e il Novecento, ed. Andrea Bocchi and Daniele Menozzi, Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2010.
5. For a recent assessment of the study of ideology see: The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, ed. Michael Freeden and Marc Stears, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 (in which Emilio Gentile refers to Mazzini as a precursor of “total ideologies,” although guaranteeing “individual liberty,” pp. 63–64).