The Italian Unification
The Italian Unification was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of
Italy in the 19th century. Young Italy is a nationalist group created to fight for unification of the separate
Italian states. The two prominent figures in the unification were Giuseppe Mazzini and
Giuseppe Garibaldi. The two powerful monarchic figures included Count Cavour and
Victor Emmanuel II, who would later become the first king of a United Italy. Giuseppe Mazzini was a popular writer who launched a nationalist group called Young Italy and has been exiled for his outspoken nationalist. Giuseppe Garibaldi was the sword of Italy, he and his followers (The
Red Shirts) conquered the southern part of Italian peninsula. Count Cavour also known as Camillo Di Cavour , was known as the
“brain” of Italian unification and he founded a nationalist newspaper called II Risorgimento. Victor Emmanuel II was the Sardinian king who offered the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Giuseppe Mazzini
The reason why Giuseppe Mazzini looks so depressed is because he believed that europe needed to redraw the lines set by congress of vienna in 1815.
The goal of the United Italian Republic movement was to create a united Italian republic through promoting a general reactionary states and in the lands occupied by the Austrian empire.
Just like Johnny Cash,
Mazzini decided to dress always in black as if in mourning for his country.