Bad feeling of many against independence leader — one from Italy, maybe (9)
I believe the answer is:
hostility
'bad feeling' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'many against independence leader one from italy maybe' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'many' could be 'host' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'host' is present in the answer.
'independence' could be 'i' and 'i' is located in the answer.
'one' could be 'i' (Roman numeral) and 'i' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for hostility that I've seen is " Aggression".)