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Italian Nationalists
drawn on the map 1848
Italian nationalism (the Risorgimento) was the 19th-century movement for the political unification and independence of Italy. Its intellectual and revolutionary wing was led by Giuseppe Mazzini, founder of Young Italy (Giovine Italia, 1831), who preached a unitary Italian republic and inspired the abortive risings and the revolutions of 1848.
- Shown on the map
- 1848
- Peak area
- 22k km²
- Region
- Europe
Flag: this is a movement, not a state
Italian nationalism (the Risorgimento) was the 19th-century movement for the political unification and independence of Italy. Its intellectual and revolutionary wing was led by Giuseppe Mazzini, founder of Young Italy (Giovine Italia, 1831), who preached a unitary Italian republic and inspired the abortive risings and the revolutions of 1848. The movement had monarchist-moderate (Cavour, Piedmont), democratic-republican (Mazzini), and activist-military (Garibaldi) currents. Their combined efforts produced the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 — under a monarchy rather than Mazzini's hoped-for republic.
Common questions
- What were the Italian Nationalists?
- Italian nationalism (the Risorgimento) was the 19th-century movement for the political unification and independence of Italy. Its intellectual and revolutionary wing was led by Giuseppe Mazzini, founder of Young Italy (Giovine Italia, 1831), who preached a unitary Italian republic and inspired the abortive risings and the revolutions of 1848.
- When are the Italian Nationalists shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Italian Nationalists 1848. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large were the Italian Nationalists?
- At their greatest extent drawn on this map, the Italian Nationalists covered about 22,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives them across the years they are drawn, not necessarily their greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each polity as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and the scholarship of Donald Queller, Thomas Madden and Jonathan Harris on the Fourth Crusade, whose post-conspiracy reading of 1204 this document follows. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Italian nationalism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_nationalism
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