With this secret society (young Italy) I will fight for the unification of Italy by revolting.
During 1830s, Guiseppe Mazzini had sought to put together a coherent programme for a unitary Italian Republican . He formed a secret society called young italy for dissemination of his goals . But he failed in the revolutionary uprisings of 1831 and 1848.
Italy has had a long history of political fragmentation. I KING VICTOR EMMANUEL II, the ruler of Sardinia-Piedmont will unify all the seven Italian states.
In the 19th century , Italy was divided into seven states, of which only one, Sardinia-Piedmont, was ruled by an Italian princely house. The north, the centre and the souuthern region were under the Austrian Hamburgs, pope and the Bourbon kings of Spain respectively.
That is a great plan Cavour . We can surely proceed with that .
Sir, to unify Italy we can make a tactful diplomatic alliance with France and with the help of France we can defeat the Austrian forces.
Cheif Minister Cavour played an an important role in the unification of Italy. Through a tactical diplomatic alliance with France engineered by Cavour, Sardinia- Piedmont succeeded in defeating the Austrian forces in 1859.
Lets unify Italy together
Apart from regular troops, a large number of armed volunteers under the leadership of Guiseppe Garibaldi joined the fray . In 1860, they marched into South Italy and The Kingdom Of Two Sicilies and succeeded in winning the support of the local peasants in order to drive out the Spanish rulers .
In 1861 Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed king of united Italy.
Much of the Italian population, among whom rates of illiteracy were very high, remained blissfully unaware of liberal-nationalist ideology. The peasant masses who had supported Garibaldi in southern Italy had never heard of Italia , and believed that La Talia was Victor Emmanuel's wife!