The First Italian War of Independence, part of the Risorgimento or unification of Italy, was fought by the Kingdom of Sardinia and Italian volunteers against the Austrian Empire and other conservative
arrival of King Carlo Alberto at the Battle of Novara
Defenders of Venice during the siege in 1849, as painted by Vittorio Emanuele Bressanin (detail)
Daniele Manin carried in triumph following the liberation of Venice on 17 March 1848 (detail from a painting by Napoleone Nani, 1876)
General Josef Radetzky, commander of the Austrian army in Lombardy–Venetia, portrait by Georg Decker (1818–1894)
Unification of Italy
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The unification of Italy, also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 ended in the annexation of various states of the Italian peninsula and its out
Five Days of Milan, 18–22 March 1848
Giuseppe Mazzini, a highly influential leader of the Italian revolutionary movement
The first meeting between Garibaldi and Mazzini at the headquarters of Young Italy in 1833
Guglielmo Pepe