Risorgimentos
Risorgimento, plural Risorgimenti, refers to the long series of political, military, diplomatic, and cultural events that consolidated the Italian peninsula’s fragmented states into a single nation-state in the 19th century. Used in historiography, the term covers both a political movement and a broader revival of Italian national identity, language, and culture after centuries of foreign domination and political division. The process culminated in the Kingdom of Italy (1861) and the incorporation of Rome (1870–71).
Key figures and currents varied across the peninsula. Liberal constitutionalists in Piedmont-Sardinia sought unity through state-building
Major milestones include the 1848 revolutions across Italy, the 1859 Second Italian War of Independence in
The Risorgimento left lasting legacies and challenges, including tensions between the new state and the Catholic