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ID number:515699
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Published: 19.10.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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ITALIAN UNIFICATION
"Qui si fa l'Italia o si muore "
("Here we make Italy -- or die!" Guiseppe Garibaldi, at the battle of Calatafimi, in Sicily, 15th May 1860)
The Risorgimento is the process by which the modern country of Italy was forged from a collection of individual Italian States linked only by geography. It started with the ending of Napoleon's reign and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and ended with the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71. Throughout that period the unification of Italy dominated European politics: with personalities such as Cavour, Mazzini and, of course, Garibaldi becoming household names.
In Italian, risorgimento literally means resurgence. But the historical sense is one of rebirth. But of what? Its champions variously hoped for independence from foreign rule, the development of national self-consciousness, national unity, a renewal of morality in government, and eventual national greatness. It is clear that the Risorgimento led to national unification. It led, but only slowly, to a national identity. The other goals were only incompletely or intermittently achieved by the end of the twentieth century. …

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