Jacopo Ruffini

As the title suggests, four of Mazzini's Risorgimento fighters—Jacob Ruffini , Ugo Bassi , Agesilao Milano , and the Baron Giovanni Nicotera —are depicted in the poem as the true heroic and self-sacrificing disciples...

The work is written largely in blank verse, with rhyme used for emphasis in particular sections. Emily Hickey suggests that HHK left it open to question whether The Disciples, as a whole, is a...