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
Italian nationalism is a movement which believes that the Italians are a nation with a single homogeneous identity, and therefrom seeks to promote the cultural unity of Italy as a country. From an Ita
Painting depicting the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861
Niccolò Machiavelli, the founder of modern political science
Pasquale Paoli, the Corsican hero who made Italian the official language of his Corsican Republic in 1755