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Denis Mack Smith obituary | Books | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • In 1954, Denis Mack Smith, who has died aged 97, produced his first book – and his masterpiece – Cavour and Garibaldi 1860: A Study in Political Conflict. Written with verve and style, it unpicks a crucial year in Italian history, undercutting a series of accepted truths concerning Italy’s unification and, in Jonathan Steinberg’s words, telling Italians “what they did not want to hear”.
  • Denis was a rarity, a true populariser of history, who wrote in a clear, readable and engaging style. His writing was full of quotable lines. He wrote of Cavour that he had “managed to persuade people to back a revolution on the excuse that this was the way to prevent a revolution”.
  • In 1949, Denis met one of Garibaldi’s daughters in Rome, and she invited him to visit the family home on the island in Caprera. He later said that it was one of the great regrets of his life that he had not been able to do so.
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  • His own other publications included a biography of Mussolini (1982), and further, separate studies of Garibaldi and Cavour were joined in 1994 by a biography of Giuseppe Mazzini, the other leading figure of the Risorgimento. Denis also edited The Making of Italy, 1796-1866 (1988), and co-authored A History of Sicily (1986) with Moses Finley and Christopher Duggan.
  • Denis’s success set in train a whole host of British scholars working on modern and contemporary Italy. The Association for the Study of Modern Italy, which organises an annual conference and publishes the journal Modern Italy, was set up in 1982, and Denis followed Christopher Seton-Watson as its chair. He was made a fellow of the British Academy (1976), a Grande Ufficiale dell’Ordine di Merito della Repubblica Italiana (1984) and a CBE (1990).
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Italian Unification - Garibaldi and Cavour (Outline) | Kingdom Of Italy | Italy - 0 views

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Italian Unification

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  • Cavour was more of a political thinker, and acted accordinglyii.
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The Importance of Cavour, Mazzini and Garibaldi to Italian Unification - International ... - 0 views

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Italian Unification

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  • By doing this he contributed towards unifying Italy because he decreased the number of independent states
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Count Camillo Cavour Risorgimento Italy Italian unification - 1 views

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Italian unification

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    " This intervention moreover occured against a background where the Austrian Empire directly and indirectly controlled many territories in the Italain peninsula."
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House of Savoy | European dynasty | Britannica.com - 0 views

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Italy Victor Emmanuel Sardinia Piedmont

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  • the ruling house of Italy from 1861 to 1946
  • acquired considerable territory in the western Alps where France, Italy, and Switzerland now converge
  • raised to ducal status within the Holy Roman Empire, and in the 18th century it attained the royal title (first of the kingdom of Sicily, then of Sardinia). Having contributed to the movement for Italian unification, the family became the ruling house of Italy in the mid-19th century and remained so until overthrown with the establishment of the Italian Republic in 1946
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  • By the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Victor Amadeus II (reigned 1675–1730) was raised in 1713 from duke to the status of a king as ruler of Sicily
  • During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815), only Sardinia remained free of French control, but in 1815, Victor Emmanuel I (reigned 1802–21) added Genoa to the family’s holdings
  • At the beginning of the Risorgimento, the territory of the house of Savoy, centred on Piedmont, was unique among Italian states for its freedom from foreign influence and for its relative military strength. A liberal revolution in 1821 forced Victor Emmanuel I to abdicate in favour of his brother, Charles Felix. On the death of the latter in 1831, Charles Albert, of the Carignano branch of the family, obtained the throne. He contributed to the cause of unification under Piedmont’s leadership by modernizing his government
  • and fighting against Austrian power in Italy in the First War of Independence of 1848–49. Under his son Victor Emmanuel II (reigned 1849–1878, king of Italy from 1861), who supported Piedmont’s prime minister, Count Cavour, in the diplomatic maneuvering immediately before unification, the Kingdom of Italy was formed with the house of Savoy at its head
  • Victor Emmanuel III (reigned 1900–46), who remained as figurehead king during the Fascist regime, abdicated in 1946, at the end of World War II, in favour of his son Umberto II in an attempt to save the monarchy, but the Italian people voted in a referendum of June 2, 1946, for a republic, ending the rule of the house of Savoy
  • No longer royal, the Savoy family moved abroad, and the monarchist movement, strong in the 1950s, went into decline
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