The birth of the Kingdom of Italy…

1828 CE to 1839 CE

The birth of the Kingdom of Italy is the result of efforts by Italian nationalists and monarchists loyal to the House of Savoy to establish a united kingdom encompassing the entire Italian Peninsula.

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the political and social Italian unification movement, or Risorgimento, had emerged to unite Italy consolidating the different states of the peninsula and liberate it from foreign control.

A prominent radical figure is the patriotic journalist Giuseppe Mazzini, member of the secret revolutionary society Carbonari and founder of the influential political movement Young Italy in the early 1830s, who favors a unitary republic and advocates a broad nationalist movement.

His prolific output of propaganda helps the unification movement stay active.

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