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Definition: Risorgimento from The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide

19th-century movement for Italian national unity and independence, begun 1815. Leading figures in the movement included Cavour, Mazzini, and Garibaldi. Uprisings 1848–49 failed, but with help from France in a war against Austria – to oust it from Italian provinces in the north – an Italian kingdom was founded in 1861. Unification was finally completed with the addition of Venetia in 1866 and the Papal States in 1870.

Risorgimento

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(rēsôr´´jēmĕn'tō) [Ital.,=resurgence], in 19th-century Italian history, period of cultural nationalism and of political activism, leading to unification of Italy. The Risorgimento's roots lie in 18th-century Italian culture in the works of such people as Ludovico Antonio Muratori , Vittorio Alfieri , and Antonio Genovesi . Italy had not been a single political unit since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th cent., and from the 16th through the 18th cent. foreign domination or influence was virtually complete. During the French Revolutionary Wars and the period dominated by Napoleon I , the temporary expulsion of Austrian and other repressive regimes and the formation of new states in Italy (see Cisalpine Republic ) encouraged hopes for unification. Secret societies such as the Carbonari appeared and carried on revolutionary activity after the restoration of the old order by the Congress of Vienna (1814–15). The Carbonari engineered uprisings in the Two Sicilies (1820) and in…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Nineteenth-century movement for Italian unification. Reforms introduced by France into its Italian states in the Napoleonic period remained after the states were restored to their former rulers in 1815 and provided an impetus for the movement. Secret groups such as Young Italy advocated Italian…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(rēsôr´´jēmĕn'tō) [Ital.,=resurgence], in 19th-century Italian history, period of cultural nationalism and of political activism, leading to unification of Italy. The Risorgimento's roots lie in 18th-century Italian culture in the works of such people as Ludovico Antonio Muratori , Vittorio Alfieri…
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From Chambers Dictionary of World History
Risorgimento
The Italian term (literally, ‘resurgence’) applied to the 19c movement by which Italy achieved unity. Although its origins lay in the administrative reforms and Enlightenment ideas of the 18c and the Napoleonic period, it is usually held to have started properly in the decades after the Congress of…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
(It. 'Resurgence') Nationalist movement (1859-70) resulting in the unification of Italy. With the restoration of Austrian and Bourbon rule in 1815, revolutionary groups formed, notably the Young Italy movement of Mazzini , whose aim was a single, democratic republic. Mazzini's influence was at its…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The name given to the 19th-century movement for Italian liberation. It can be said to have had its roots in the enlightened despotism of the 18th century and the influence of the French Revolution and French occupation. The carbonari in Naples and Sicily, the Federati in Sardinia, and Mazzini's…
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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Uniforms of the Italian Risorgimento, Color plate by Quinto Cenni
Credit: Uniforms of the Italian Risorgimento, Color plate by Quinto Cenni / De Agostini Picture Library / A. de Gregorio / The Bridgeman Art Library Description: Militaria, Italy, 19th century. Uniforms of the Italian Risorgimento. Color plate by Quinto Cenni. Artwork-location: Roma, Archivio…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
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From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary
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