French rule
abolished after
defeat at Waterloo
in 1815.
All states to be
governed by state
monarchies
2 Sicilies
bourbon
control
Papal States ruled
from vatican
Piedmont-sardinia
from house of savoy
Austrian control in
Lombardy
Austria had a
huge power and
influence in Italy
1820-1 revolutions
Aims & Causes
Naples
King Ferdinance had increased Church power to
censor books, newspapers and magazines. Angered
MC, Lawyers and teachers. Ferdinand was short on
money so cut back on public spending so halted
works on the road and harbour improvements. Less
education was being offered, increasing th epoverty
levels. Corruption in the government was also a
negative.
Uprising in Spain- Pepe got the
constitution he desired after violence
Didn't like
monarchial
control
Sicily
Sicily was forced to be joined with Naples and Ferdinand and
Siciilians felt he was neglected their island. peasants were getting
more and more into debt, riots took place in palermo. demands for
constitution, gov offices burned down, prisoners released and
neapolitan goernor was sent home by boat.
What Happened
Naples
News of spanish carbonari and liberal revolution, it spurred
Naples into action. In July 1921, ferdinand promised to meet and
grant the constitutuion to the people of Naples like the on in
Spain(1812) which would give vote to all males and reduce kings
power. Metternich was angered with what was happening and at
the meeting of Laibach 1921, Ferdinand said he had granted it out
of fear so metternich offered help, came into Italy March 1821,
which restored control to Ferdinand
Sicily
Wit Metternichs intervention in
Naples it put the action in Sicily
down, order was restored. people
left the trade guilds who made up
the revolutions numbers
Success
New Constitution
Governor sent back to Naples
Victor Emmanuel I abdicated
Failures
Austria army took control
Austria-controlled Naples resumed control
Charles Felix and Austria took control
LOOK AT 1831-2
1831-2 revolutions
Modena
In modena, the reolt was led by
Enrico Misley, student son of a Uni
Proffesor. He told Duke Francis of
his plans to have a fully united Italy
and trusted him, this was betrayed
and he was arrested in feb 1831, 2
days before the uprisings were to
begin. the arrest allowed Duke
Francis to believe danger was gone
so he went to Vienna to negotiate
Austrian help should it be needed.
when away, revolutionaries took over
modena city, and set up provisional
government.
Cause
In 1830, a revolution in Paris led Charles
X to abdicate in july 1830, Louis-Philippe
was a more liberal figure. this gave hope
to Italian Liberals and started to fight.
disturbances in Modena, Parma and
Papal stars, all places, they were trying
to persuade local ruler to grant a
constitution
Parma
Modena activities inspires students in Parma to
prganise riots and demand a constitution from their
ruler Duchess Marie-Louise. Fled in terror and a
provisinal gov was established. the two cities joined
together too revolution but ran out of time. Austria
defeated the Modena revolutionaries, and then they
entered parma where Marie-Louise returned to her
position.
Papal States
Similar Uprisings happened here
organised by professional classes who
resented oppressive rule of church.
papal gov put up little resistance and
formed provisional gov called The
Government of the Italian People. Austria
proved decisive and
intervened.Metternich defeated the
rebels. some more uprisings in 1831 qnd
1832 but Austria forecfully put them
down.
Reason for failure. 1820's and 1830's
Strength of Austria
Revolutions were local and seperate
Little popular support- these were all done by MC no WC support.
No support off peasants
Ill equipped revolutionaries.
No french aid. or any outside aid.
1848-9 Revolutuions
Origins
Pope made reforms in 48 and early 49 which meant that in Piedmont and Tuscany
censorship was abolished. the goernments were going to have a customs union with
the Papa; States( remove the tax on goods they trade with each other.) Metternich
worried and tightened the garrision to stop these agreements. made new treaties with
Modena and Parma lots of discontent. liberals wanted constituions, gov reforms,
political freedom, nationanlists wanted independence from austria and some unity. 90%
was agricultureal. little industry in north. harvests failed 1846 and 1847. shortages of
wheat and maize high prices not increased wages. poor became poorer.
Sicily Succes
Ferdinand II promised reforms to make better life for sicilians, these didnt last. jan 1848
notices went out to show they were going to reform. on the day streets were full of
revolutionaries.Lots of armed fighting but 2 days later revolutionaries had taken over the city. by
april they had most of the island. provisional gov was set up. a parliament was elected and it
was declared that sicily was seperated from naples. King of naples wasnt king of Sicily. never
wanted national unity, just seperation from eachother.
Failure in Naples and Sicily
The revolution spread to Naples in which the King accepted
to grant the constitution which would limit him power and be
a two-chamber parliament. he would free the press from
sensorship. however by september 1848 naples sent troops
over to sicily to bombard the people, and in spring of 1849,
they were forced to join again with Naples. King went back on
earlier promises
Success in Central and Northern Italy
Grand Duke of Tuscany and King of Piedmont
promised to grant constitution. this was followed
by Pope in Papal States. trouble in milan with the
tobacco boycotts( ruin austrian economy) serious
revolts "the Five days" Radetsky who was Austrian
control of forces in Italy withdrew because of the
unrest in Vienna and Metternich had resigned.
The milanese soldiers asked charles albert of
piedmont to help them fight against the austrians
and he agreed to declare war.
THe POPE
Charles Albert's army defeated the Austrians at
end of 1848. but in papal states wasnt going
well.pope's army commander had disobeyed orders
and set off with his troops to join Charles Albert's
army. made difficulties for pope because he
remained neutral and didnt want to be seen at war.
Pius ix made it clear he wasnt part of war and didnt
want to be head of a federation of states turned his
back on liberalism. meant there was a lot less
support to national unity.
Roman Republic and Revolutions 1848-9
Pope fled after assisstant murdered. goernment he left behind announced serious
reform changes, abolish tax on corn. mazzini arrived in rome in march and was elected
head a governing group. 100 days he held power for. he abolished death penalty, new
newspapers 12. catholicism official religion of new republic. he also urged that Rome,
Piedmont,Florence and Venice shoild work together to end Austrian rule in Italy. pope
appealed to france, spain and naples to help free Rome. 20000
troops marched there and destroyed the roman republic.
Cavour coming into power
lots of knowledge in financial and econmic affairs.
Appointed PM of Piedmont in 1852
New nothing on foreign
affairs so immediately
went to the Crimean
War 1854
peace of paris 1856, Plombieres 1858
At Plombieres he arranged a deal with France in which the two would join together if
they could come up with an excuse to entice austria into war or vice versa.
Resignation
Cavour resigned in July 1859 after the war. he felt let down that
Austria still controlled Venetia. Appaled with supposed
arrangement in Tuscany, Modena and Parma. Furious he hadnt
been consulted with the ending of the war.
Return to Power
He returned in January 1860, but whilst he was gone a
carefully rigged vote in Tuscany voted for annexing
with Piedmont same with Modena, Parma, Romagna
and Papal States. they werent put into place
automatically because of the opposition to Napoleon.
When he came back, in Mid march 1860 the population of Tuscany voted
for union with Piedmont, and Emilia (the new state of Modena, Parma and
Romagna) also signed to annex with Piedmont after in Tuscany 386445 for
vs 14925k against (around) and in Emilia around 427512 and 756
Had to resotre good relationship with Napoelon, arranged to give
France Nice and Savoy. Savoy 130583 for , 235 against. In nice
24448 got, 160 against french speaking savoy result was expected,
but result in Italian speaking Nice was suspicious Garibaldi
questioned this.
War of 1859
After plombieres, Cavour knew he couldnt start a war for no
reason, but he moved he mobilised his army. In april 1859 Austria
demanded that he demoibilise his army, this was the excuse as they
werent going to do this. Austria declared war on 29 April 1859
Battle of Magenta 4 June 1859
Austrians defated by french troops
Battle of Solferino 24 June 1859
Austrians defeated by French-Piedmontese army
Armistice at Villafrance 11 July 1859
Piedmont would recieve Lombardy but it was
ceded to France first. Tuscany, Modena and
Parman leaders who fled were restored.
Austria kept Venetia
Why did Napoleon do the truce after 7 weeks of fighting?
DIdnt have stomach for war.
Little hope that what was left of their own forces could defeat Austria. reinforcements would be needed which would take time etc.
Danger that his absence meant Prussia would take advantage and go into France.
Garibaldi's work
Born in Piedmont but exiled to Argentina and south america, he
learned to fight like a guerila and took part in many wars in south
america. He came back to Italy because he wanted Naples, Sicily and
Rome to be involved in a united Ital,y
Garibaldi was a rough, non-educated leader who believed he needed to take things into his own hands to get a unified
Italy. His ideas were simple and straightforward and he was ready to take the steps required to get a unified Italy. In 1860,
revolts had started in Sicily against the King of Naples with whom they wanted to be free from. By early May 1860, Garibaldi
had gathered 1200 volunteers together to try and free Sicily from Napoleonic rule. Once he reached Marsala in Sicily on the
11th of May, they advanced into Palermo where they gathered support from locals on the way and defeated an army sent
from the King of Naples to stop them. They then found 20,000 enemy troops waiting for them at Palermo which they
managed to quickly dispose of which led to a retreat of the Garrison back to Naples. Garibaldi’s style and personality had
single-handedly won them the victory. He then took temporary charge of governing Sicily and won over the people by
abolishing the tax on corn being milled
. He wanted to annex Sicily with Piedmont, however he though Cavour would prevent him with carrying on with his
quest to march into Naples. Garibaldi avoided Cavour’s attempt to stop him by being too quick to beat Cavour’s ships
to Naples. Once he arrived, he and his troops marched to the centre of Naples, and they fought their way to the
centre of Naples, the King fled and he accepted the surrender by Naples and ruled as a dictator of the Kingdom of
Naples for two months.
Then, he marched into Rome but he was met by Victor Emmanuel on the 26th
october 1860 in which garibalidi handed his territory over to the King to become a
part of the Kingdom Of Italy. Garibalidi was offered a big pension, castle and Major
General title, he refused all after the kings treatment of the red shirts ( garibaldini)
2 attempts to take rome
1862The Battle of Aspromonte, also known as for the mountain near Reggio Calabria in southern Italy
where it took place on 29 August 1862, was an inconclusive episode of the Italian unification process. In
the battle, the Royal Italian Army defeated Giuseppe Garibaldi's army of volunteers that was marching
from Sicily towards Rome with the intent of liberating the city and annexing it to the Kingdom of Italy.
In the encounter, a few kilometers from Gambarie, Garibaldi was wounded and taken prisoner.
The Battle of Mentana was fought on November 3, 1867 near the village of Mentana between
French-Papal troops and the Italian volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who were attempting to
capture Rome, then the main centre of the peninsula still outside of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy.
The battle ended in a victory by the French-Papal troops.
Kingdom of Italy 1861-70
In 1866 Venetia was important. Italy signed an alliance with Prussia in April, as Prussia were in a battle
with Austria for the control of Germany. Italy agreed that if Austria and Prussia went to war Italy would
followe Prussia and declare war. Napoleon III also sined a secret treaty with Bismarck in June. France
would remain neutral in the war and if Austria ewre defeated, Italy would recieve Venetia. This would
then be given to Italy as a reward for being a second front. Napoleon also signed a secret treaty with
Austria that if the stayed neutral, and Austria won, then Venetia would be given to the french to give to
italy. This was great diplomatic skill. Peace of Prague in 1866,Austria gave Venetia to france after
losing, and then passed to Italy.
THe last problem was how to get the French out of
Rome. in 1870 Franco-Prussian war broke out meaning
Napoleon had to remove the french garrison from Rome
meaning that the Italians could take Rome. On 8
september victor Emmanuel wrote to the Pope asking him
to give up temporal power which was only there from 1849
because of the french garrison and allow rome to be the
capital of a united Italy. The popoe rejected this 3 days
later. 6000 troops were sent in. 20 september 1870 VE
army ebtered rome. Roman citizens voted 133681 to 1507
for unification. Italy was now united
Individuals
Mazzini
nationalist and patriot. considered one of the "patron saints" of the Italian Risorgimento.His association,
Giovine Italia (Young Italy), founded in the 1830s, attracted adherents throughout the peninsula and
among Italian political exiles everywhere. With the exception of Giuseppe Garibaldi, no other Italian
Risorgimento leader enjoyed greater international renown than Mazzini in his time.Mazzini's primary
goals were the end of Austrian hegemony in Italy and of the temporal power of the pope
In 1848 Mazzini's dreams seemed to be realized, when news of the successful revolutions
throughout Europe reached him in his English exile. As the revolutions progressed like
brush-fires up the Italian peninsula, Mazzini arrived in Milan.On April 30, 1848, Carlo
Cattaneo, Giuseppe Ferrari, and other republican leaders of the Milanese revolt proposed
to overturn their pro-Piedmontese provisional government and request French assistance
against Austria. Mazzini opposed them, urging support for the efforts of the Italian
monarch and army, rather than appealing to foreign troops. This drew angry criticisms from
the republican leaders who accused Mazzini of betraying his republican principles. The
quarrel proved futile. Marshall Radetzky was already regrouping his forces against the
Piedmontese army which he would eventually defeat at Custozza on July 25, 1848, to
reestablish Austrian control over Lombardy.
Pope fled after assistant murdered. government he left behind announced serious reform changes, abolish
tax on corn. Mazzini arrived in Rome in march and was elected head a governing group. 100 days he held
power for. he abolished death penalty, new newspapers 12. catholicism official religion of new republic. he
also urged that Rome, Piedmont,Florence and Venice should work together to end Austrian rule in Italy. pope
appealed to France, Spain and Naples to help free Rome. 20000 troops marched there and destroyed the
roman republic.
Victor Emmanuel
Victor Emanuel II was king of Sardinia from 1849 until, on 17 March 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to
become the first king of a united Italy the King halted Garibaldi when he appeared ready to attack Rome, still
under the Papal States, as it was under French protection. In 1860, through local plebiscites, Tuscany,
Modena, Parma and Romagna decided to side with Sardinia-Piedmont. In 1866 Victor Emanuel allied himself
with Prussia in the Third Italian War of Independence. Although not victorious in the Italian theater, he
managed anyway to receive Veneto after the Austrian defeat in Germany. In 1870, after two failed attempts by
Garibaldi, he also took advantage of the Prussian victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War to capture
Rome after the French withdrew. He entered Rome on 20 September 1870 and set up the new capital there on
2 July 1871
Charles Albert Statuto
Unrest in Turin caused Charles Albert to agree to reforms and to grant a
constitution which became known as the statuto. took power away from
monarchy and put it into hands of government officials. issued on 8
February 1848. Full Statuto was published in March 1848 and it inclued
some more clauses to the original 14.