21 Facts About Risorgimento

Risorgimento escaped to South America, though, spending fourteen years in exile, taking part in several wars, and learning the art of guerrilla warfare before his return to Italy in 1848.

Many of the key intellectual and political leaders operated from exile; most Risorgimento patriots lived and published their work abroad after successive failed revolutions.

Risorgimento was quickly defeated by Radetzky at Novara on 23 March 1849.

Risorgimento was a modernizer interested in agrarian improvements, banks, railways and free trade.

Risorgimento opened a newspaper as soon as censorship allowed it: Il Risorgimento called for the independence of Italy, a league of Italian princes, and moderate reforms.

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Risorgimento had the ear of the king and in 1852 became prime minister.

Risorgimento ran an efficient active government, promoting rapid economic modernization while upgrading the administration of the army and the financial and legal systems.

Risorgimento hoped to use his supporters to regain the territory.

Risorgimento's courage boosted by his resolute young wife, Queen Marie Sophie, Francis mounted a stubborn defence that lasted three months.

Risorgimento negotiated with the Emperor Napoleon for the removal of the French troops from Rome through a treaty.

Risorgimento'storians suggest that the referendum in Venetia was held under military pressure, as a mere 0.

Risorgimento never forgot, even in August 1870, a month before Sedan, that he was a sovereign of a Catholic country, that he had been made Emperor, and was supported by the votes of the Conservatives and the influence of the clergy; and that it was his supreme duty not to abandon the Pontiff.

Revisionism of Risorgimento produced a clear radicalization of Italy in the mid-20th century, following the fall of the Savoy monarchy and fascism during World War II.

Risorgimento's most known painting The Kiss aims to portray the spirit of the Risorgimento: the man wears red, white and green, representing the Italian patriots fighting for independence from the Austro-Hungarian empire while the girl's pale blue dress signifies France, which in 1859 made an alliance with the Kingdom of Piedmont and Sardinia enabling the latter to unify the many states of the Italian peninsula into the new kingdom of Italy.

Risorgimento was represented by works not necessarily linked to Neoclassicism—as in the case of Giovanni Fattori who was one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli and who soon became a leading Italian plein-airist, painting landscapes, rural scenes, and military life during the Italian unification.

Giovanni Berchet wrote a poetry characterized by a high moral, popular and social content; he contributed to Il Conciliatore, a progressive bi-weekly scientific and literary journal, influential in the early Risorgimento that was published in Milan from September 1818 until October 1819 when it was closed by the Austrian censors; its writers included Ludovico di Breme, Giuseppe Nicolini, and Silvio Pellico.

Risorgimento was depicted in famous novels:The Leopard written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Heart by Edmondo De Amicis, and Piccolo mondo antico by Antonio Fogazzaro.

Risorgimento won the support of many leading Italian opera composers.

Franco Della Peruta argues in favour of close links between the operas and the Risorgimento, emphasizing Verdi's patriotic intent and links to the values of the Risorgimento.

Risorgimento's politics caused him to be frequently in trouble with the Austrian censors.

Verdi later became disillusioned by politics, but he was personally active part in the political world of events of the Risorgimento and was elected to the first Italian parliament in 1861.