1848–1871 consolidation of Italian states into a single state
This article is about the 19th century consolidation of Italian states into a single state. For the Roman unification of the Italian Peninsula, see Roman expansion in Italy.
"Risorgimento" redirects here. For the 2011 opera by Lorenzo Ferrero, see Risorgimento! For the newspaper, see Il Risorgimento (newspaper).
Unification of Italy
Five Days of Milan, 18–22 March 1848
Native name
Risorgimento
Date
1848–1871
Location
Italy
Participants
Italian society, Kingdom of Sardinia, Provisional Government of Milan, Republic of San Marco, Kingdom of Sicily, Roman Republic, Carboneria, French Empire, Red Shirts, Hungarian legion, Southern Army, United Provinces of Central Italy, Kingdom of Italy
Outcome
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy
Capture of Rome
Rome becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Italy
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The unification of Italy (Italian: Unità d'Italia, Italian:[uniˈtaddiˈtaːlja]), also known as the Risorgimento (/rɪˌsɔːrdʒɪˈmɛntoʊ/, Italian:[risordʒiˈmento]; lit.'Resurgence'), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in 1861 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 designation as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.[1][2]
Even after 1871, many ethnic Italian-speakers (such as Trentino-Alto Adigan Italians, Istrian Italians, and Dalmatian Italians) remained outside the borders of the Kingdom of Italy, planting the seeds of Italian irredentism. Individuals who played a major part in the struggle for unification and liberation from foreign domination included King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Giuseppe Mazzini.[3]
Some of the states that had been envisaged as part of the unification process (terre irredente) did not join the Kingdom until after Italy defeated Austria-Hungary in the First World War, culminating in the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920. Some historians see the Risorgimento as continuing to that time, which is the view presented at the Central Museum of the Risorgimento at Altare della Patria in Rome.[4][5]
^Collier, Martin (2003). Italian unification, 1820–71. Heinemann Advanced History (First ed.). Oxford: Heinemann. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-435-32754-5. The Risorgimento is the name given to the process that ended with the political unification of Italy in 1871
^Riall, Lucy (1994). The Italian Risorgimento: state, society, and national unification (First ed.). London: Routledge. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-203-41234-3. The functional importance of the Risorgimento to both Italian politics and Italian historiography has made this short period (1815–60) one of the most contested and controversial in modern Italian history
^"Fratelli d'Italia, divisi su tutto" (in Italian). 12 December 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
^Arnaldi, Girolamo. Italy and Its Invaders. Harvard University Press, 2005. p. 194. ISBN 0-674-01870-2.
^"Museo Centrale del Risorgimento di Roma". Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italiano (in Italian). Retrieved 6 July 2018.
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