Marco Minghetti, an Italian moderate, negotiates a…
September 1864 CE
A secret clause in the agreement also binds Italy to transfer its capital from Turin to Florence, thus implicitly abandoning the Cavourian claim to Rome.
When this clause becomes known, severe riots occur on September 21-22 in Turin, leaving thirty people dead and causing the fall of the Minghetti government.
When the Second Italian War of Independence broke out in 1859 between Austria and the northern Italian kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the Second French Empire had joined the war on the Italian side; the war had concluded with an Austrian defeat at Solferino.
In return for this intervention, Piedmont had ceded the County of Nice (which included the city of Nice and the rugged Alpine territory to its north and east) and the Duchy of Savoy.
The deputies of the first Italian Parliament had assembled in Turin on February 18, 1861.
On March 17, 1861, the Parliament had proclaimed Victor Emmanuel II King of Italy, and on March 27, 1861, Rome had been declared the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
However, the Italian Government could not take its seat in Rome because a French garrison (which had overthrown the Roman Republic) is defending Pope Pius IX, maintained here by Napoleon III of France and commanded by general Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière.
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