The Italian democratic movement refuses to acknowledge…

April 1860 CE

The Italian democratic movement refuses to acknowledge that the national revolution is in any way complete so long as parts of the peninsula remain under the old sovereigns.

Sicily, where autonomist opposition to the Bourbon government is endemic and extreme, is the most obvious place for a democratic revival.

A Mazzinian-inspired insurrection, the Gancia revolt, had broken out in Palermo on April 4, 1860, and spread throughout the island, but it had quickly been quelled.

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Palermo > Panormus Sicilia Italy View →

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Francis II of the Two Sicilies View → Giuseppe Garibaldi View → Giuseppe Mazzini View → Victor Emanuel II View →

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Sicilies, Kingdom of the Two View →

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Italian unification View → Italian Revolutions of 1852-1863 View → Italian War of Independence, Second View → Expedition of the Thousand View →

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