Aim: How Did Nationalism help unify Italy? Italian Unification Aim: How Did Nationalism help unify Italy? The Italian Unification or Italian Risorgimento is known as the chain of political and military events that produced a united Italian peninsula under the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. After the Napoleonic Wars and Napoleon Bonaparte’s second defeat, the major powers that has resisted met at a conference called the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The topic of discussion was to limit France’s power, set limits on nations so no one nation become too strong, and divide up the territory conquered up by Napoleon. In its negotiations, the congress returned domination of the Italian Peninsula to Austria. Austria now occupied Lombardy and Venice and had considerable influence on other Italian states. What obstacles do you anticipate Italians facing during their unification process?

Giuseppe Mazzini THE SOUL Young Italy was formed by Mazzini in 1831 with the goal of creating an Italian Republic.

Count Camillo Cavour THE MIND Prime Minister of the small Kingdom of Piedmont. To weak to take on Austria by itself, so he wisely gained an alliance with France, and defeated Austrian Empire in a war. As a result, Piedmont gained land from Austria.

Giuseppe Garibaldi THE BODY Garibaldi led an army of 1,000 volunteers known as the Red Shirts. They stormed through the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies gaining control. Garibaldi then moved north and handed power to the new King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel.

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