The Unification Of Italy

1. Giuseppe Mazzini was the thinker and dreamer who encouraged and inspired others to work and struggle toward the ideal of Italian Unity.

1.1. After 1831, he was forced to leave Italy

2. Vincenzo Gioberti who suggeested a Catholic basis for Italian Unification with the pope as head of a confederation of the existing states.

3. In 1848 , they saw revolutions in all parts of Italy.

3.1. King Charles Albert of Sardinia immediately seized the leadership of the moeev=

4. In 1859, the italian peninsula was divided into a number of separate states

4.1. in 1871, almost all italians were living under a government of a king

5. In 1840, there were seven important Italian states

6. Italian society retained many characteristics of the Old Regime.

7. Lombardy and Venetia expelled their Austrian garrisons and In Venetia Daniele Manin brought about the establishment of a republic.

7.1. Giuseppe Garibaldi , one of the Italy’s heroes, a great military leader and the most romantic figure

8. Cavour entered the Sardinian cabinet in 1850 and became prime minister in 1852

8.1. He took it into the Crimean War on the side of Britain and France