The publication of the Dictionary, coordinated and in large part compiled by Michele Rosi, characterized by a Catholic and anti-jacobin conception of a popular Risorgimento that was still in the making, began in 1914, bur was completed after the first world war, in the years of fascism. By then, a new historiography of united Italy - of Salvemini, Croce and Volpe - seemed to render obsolete the criteria and reasons underlying the Dictionary.
Keywords: Michele Rosi, Risorgimento, Dizionario, nazione, giacobini