What was the Risorgimento?

a. Term for operas based on political subjects.
b. The nineteenth-century movement toward Italian political and socialunification

c. The retirement home for musicians founded by Giuseppe Verdi.
d. A multi-sectional musical number at the beginning of the first act of TheBarber of Seville.


b

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