In the same year, a congress of…

In the same year, a congress of Italian scientists holds its first annual meeting in Pisa.

Through 1847, each subsequent meeting had assumed a markedly more nationalistic character.

Thus, conditions have become more favorable for moderates to realize their programs of increasing public education and abolishing censorship and police surveillance.

In the cause of economic unification they endeavor to standardize tolls and trade practices and to increase cultural exchange among the Italian states.

They also seek to achieve representative institutions compatible with Italian traditions and with Roman Catholicism.