Italian unification

The unification of Italy, also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th-century political and social movement that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy. Inspired by the rebellions in the 1820s and 1830s against the outcome of the Congress of Vienna, the unification process was precipitated by the Revolutions of 1848, and reached completion in 1871 after the capture of Rome and its…

Print by Giacomo Mantegazza. Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 – 1872) founded the Young Europe association in Bern, Switzerland, in 1834. He was an Italian politician, journalist, and activist for the Unification of Italy into a single state, which occurred in 1861. He was born in Genoa, Gênes department, First French Empire, which is now in Liguria region, Italy.

Garibaldi at the battle of Volturno, 1860

In the summer and autumn of 1859, when Cavour's policy was at an impasse, Mazzini began to call for revolutionary action in the papal possessions, in order to

Garibaldi Zouave Infantry (Italian Unification Wars)

Garibaldi and his Redshirt artillery, Unification of Italy

Italian unification Map

The Italian unification was the political and social movement, known as Risorgimento, meaning the Resurgence, that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century, overcoming 1300 years of disunity. The process began in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna and the end of Napoleonic rule, and ended in 1870 with the Capture of Rome. Some of the terre irredente did not, however, join the Kingdom of Italy until after World War…

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