68.1 War of Italian Unification - Background

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Napoleonic Wars had a dramatic impact on Italy, completing redrawing boundaries. Even though the French were defeated, many of their political reforms were to be both profound and long-lasting. And the temporary unification of parts of the peninsula encouraged Italians to be aware of a common nationality. Yet only decades afterwards would there be real change. Some of the protagonists were Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini and Camillo Cavour, the Prime Minister of Piedmont

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1:02.6	This is The War of Italian Unification, 1859 to 1861, part one of two. The
1:30.3	The President A geographical expression rather than a nation.
1:58.4	This is a famous term used by Clemens Metellick, Chief Minister of Austria until 1848,
2:06.6	to describe Italy. At the time, he was quite correct. Never in its history, at least since the
2:14.6	ancient Roman Empire, had the Italian peninsula been united as a single
2:19.2	nation. Since the early Middle Ages, and perhaps even earlier, the idea of Italian nationhood
2:25.6	had existed. Dante and Petrarch both dreamed of it, as later did Machiavelli. Geographically and linguistically it made sense.
2:37.9	But the land was so deeply divided politically, with various bitter rivalries between neighbouring cities,
2:45.6	the division of Guelph and Gibeline, Emperor and Pope.
2:55.9	Then, from the year 1494, when the French king, Charles V.
3:00.8	The peninsula became a battleground between neighbouring powers.
3:08.6	By the mid-16th century, the Spanish Habsburgs had established their dominance over the peninsula.
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