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Risorgimento

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Category: History & Society
Date:
c. 1815 - 1870
Major Events:
Wars of Italian Independence
Expedition of the Thousand
Key People:
Camillo Benso, count di Cavour
Charles Albert
Francesco Crispi
Luigi Carlo Farini
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Risorgimento, (Italian: “Rising Again”), 19th-century movement for Italian unification that culminated in the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. The Risorgimento was an ideological and literary movement that helped to arouse the national consciousness of the Italian people, and it led to a series of political events that freed the Italian states from foreign domination and united them politically. Although the Risorgimento has attained the status of a national myth, its essential meaning remains a controversial question. The classic interpretation (expressed in the writings of the philosopher Benedetto Croce) sees the Risorgimento as the triumph of liberalism, but ...(100 of 363 words)

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