Archive for month: April, 2025

The most successful leader of the Risorgimento movement was Camillo di Cavour. He was from a prominent Piedmontese family...

By the year 1848 the Risorgimento movement had stabilised. It meant that all Italian classes believed in the resurrection...

He was born in 1805, Genoa. His father was a University Professor but had radical political views and he...

There were many revolts in Italy against the existing conditions and thousands of persons were sent to prisons or...

The July Revolution of 1830 in France also affected the Italian politics. The Papal States were very badly affected....

There was a revolution against the Spanish Bourbons in Spain itself which triggered the revolutions that occur in Italy....

Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo in June 1815 and was exiled to Saint Helena. Louis XVII is restored as...

BASIC BACKGROUND Italy was first united by Rome in the third century B.C. It remained for over 700 years...

Increased nationalism in Germany made it more powerful. Germany was the strongest military power on the continent. Germany’s position...

After 1848, nationalism in Europe moved away from its association with democracy and revolution. Nationalist sentiments were often mobilized...