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Italy - Revolutions, 1848, Unification: The first of the Revolutions of 1848 erupted in Palermo on January 9. Starting as a popular insurrection, it soon took on overtones of Sicilian separatism and spread throughout the island. Piecemeal reforms proved inadequate to satisfy the revolutionaries, both noble and bourgeois, who were determined to have a new and more liberal constitution ...
The Five Days of Milan (1848), of which one of the symbols was the Italian tricolour. The Italian tricolour flag was a symbol of the revolutions of 1848.In March 1848, the Five Days of Milan, an armed insurrection which led to the temporary liberation of the city from Austrian rule, were characterised by a profusion of flags and Italian tricolour cockades.
- 12 January — 27 October 1848, (9 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
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Italy | The Revolutions of 1848. In Italy new reform movements supplanted the discredited Carbonari. By the 1840s three movements were competing for the leadership of Italian nationalism. Two were moderate. One of these groups, based in the north, favored the domination of Piedmont; its leader, Count Camillo Cavour (1810-1861), was an admirer ...
Niccolò Tommaseo, the editor of the Italian Language Dictionary in eight volumes, was a precursor of the Italian irredentism and his works are a rare examples of a metropolitan culture above nationalism; he supported the liberal revolution headed by Daniele Manin against the Austrian Empire and he will always support the unification of Italy.
- 1848–1871
- Italy
- Risorgimento
Jan 3, 2002 · Sicily was the poorest, most rebellious, most ungovernable region of Italy. Very few Sicilians had much inkling about Italian nationality; yet in 1848 (as again in 1860) it was this peripheral and socially backward region that, perhaps paradoxically, started the most decisive revolutions of the Italian Risorgimento.
The Five Days of Milan ( Italian: Cinque giornate di Milano [ˈtʃiŋkwe dʒorˈnaːte di miˈlaːno]) was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and ...
