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Restoration Italy (1815-1831)
- Congress and Treaty
of Vienna (1815)
- Treaty reflected Prince
Metternich's conservative
wishes for Italy
- Restored pre-1796
state of peninsula
- Wanted to suppress
liberal government
- Piedmont
- House of Savoy = rightful rulers
- Victor Emmanuel I returns
and restores absolute rule
- Code Napoleon repealed
- Church restored
- Gained port and
state of Genoa
- Lombardy and Venice
- Lombardy under Austrian control
- Venice annexed to Austria
- The Papal States
- Pope Pius VII restored
- Code Napoleon repealed in most areas
- Austrian forces stationed in these states
- The Central Duchies
- Under Austrian influence
- Ferdinand III became ruler of Tuscany
- Improved education etc.
- Allowed freedom of expression
- Marie-Louise of Bourbon-Parma replaced
Code Napoleon with something similar
- Duke Francis IV in Modena was
more repressive
- Naples
- Ferdinand I restored to throne
- Church power/authority restored
- Many liberal projects abandoned
- British-inspired constitution in
Sicily destroyed (1816)
- Secret Societies
- The Carbonari
- Largest secret society
- Political change
- Revolution against
restored monarchs
- The Adelfi/The Society of the
Sublime Perfect Masters
- Destruction of Austrian rule ->
democratic republic
- Anti-French
- Members
- Middle-class
- Some had "lost out" due
to the restoration
- Some wanted restoration of
political rights/constitutions
- Some wanted radical action
- Revolt in Naples (1820)
- Caused by Ferdinand III promising a
constitution in Spain following an uprising
- July 1820: Uprising in Naples, success
relied on actions of General Pepe
- Carbonari > peasants
involved
- Ferdinand agreed to new constitution
based on 1812 Spanish model (6th July)
- Revolution in Sicily (1821)
- Led by workers of Palermo after
news of success in Naples
- Confined to Palermo
- Revolutions worried Metternich, Congress at Laibach
caused Ferdinand to renounce constitution and in
March 1821 Austrian forces crush revolutionary
government in Naples
- Revolt in Piedmont (1821)
- Group of Piedmontese army officers seized fortress of
Alessandria and declared provisional government (March 1821)
- Revolution spread to Turin, where the army mutinied
- Victor Emmanuel I abdicated, replaced by Charles Felix,
regent: Charles Albert
- Charles Albert issues constitution, Charles Felix returns and
rejects constitution and asks Metternich for military support
- Revolutionaries' army defeated at Novara
by Piedmontese-Austrian troops (April 1821)
- Uprising in Modena (1831)
- Despite the conspirator Ciro Menotti's
arrest, revolution went ahead in
Bologna and spread to Modena
- Francesco IV requests support from
Metternich after fleeing to Vienna
- Francesco returns to the Central
Duchies with an Austrian army
and the revolution was crushed,
with many revolutionaries being
executed. (March 1831)
- Revolution in the Papal States (1831)
- Moderate revolution, middle
and artisan classes involved
- Cino Menotti urged an uprising to challenge the clerical
state and re-establish a secular state and liberal reforms
- Revolutionary army captures Ancona and Perugia
in February 1831, and provisional government is
set up in March. Constitution issued.
- March 1831: Army from Austria intervenes and took
Bologna. Revolutionary army surrenders to papal forces.