Gioventù ribelle (rebel Youth) is an exhibition that illustrates ideas and actions of a group of people, usually quite young, that spend their lifetime seeking to realize an idea of freedom that arose from cultural philosophy, the literary Enlightenment as well as Romanticism.

The loyalty to their ideals caused the person to live a difficult life spending most time far away from their loved ones and often in exile, perhaps in prison or sentenced to death. However, the ideal of freedom coincided with the idea of nation by way of affirmation, an united Italy free from foreign governments was being built and thus they identified themselves with the events of history.

The history of the Italian Risorgimento throughout the nineteenth century is presented as a period characterized by strong passions, research and comparison that significantly determined public and private life of individual protagonists.

The debate is retraced by the track of personal documents such as letters, diaries, memories as well as official writings which in that century had a modern form like periodicals, brochures and invitations

The exhibition is organized in sections that illustrate the individual profiles of the protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento with their writings and facts that they or others were involved in.

Rebel Youth. The Italy of the Risorgimento

from January 20th to February 19th

Complesso delle Oblate (Complex of the Oblate), via dell'Oriolo 24, Florence

Opening times: Tuesday and Thursday: 15.00 - 18.00 – Wednesday and Friday: 10.00 - 13.00
Saturday and Sunday: 11.00 - 16.00 – closed on Mondays
Free entry