Leaders

__**Giuseppe Mazzini**__

He was a Italian nationlist, patriot, and civilactivist, whom had supported and commited him self to Italian Independence, even during his teenage years. He was eventually put into exile in 1831 for his revolutionary activies. Soon he started to recruit and influence people to uprise and rebel against Itailian state rulers. There were exiled people everywhere in Italy. Giuseppe wanted a democracy and to over throw the rulers of italy so it could be united with one captal from Rome. When or if the rulers were overthrown he believed to want, the pope to have temporal power with Italian unity, republicanism, democracy, and the liberation of all oppressed peoples. Oppressed means people who have been victims of Tyranny, or forced to follow under a ruler. He was known as a Nationalist Revolutionary by 1840's and He'd appeal to to itailians, even hard to control under oppressive governments, it was unrevaled, most citizens would be responding to him. There were actually some who died in revolts of his revolutionary teachings.

__**Giuseppe Garibaldi**__

Giuseppe was a patriot of unifying italy, he was also a soldier of Risorgimento. Then he fell under Giuseppe Mazzini's influence in 1834. Sometime after that He took part in a failed mutiny intended to provoke a republican Revolution in Piedmont. Afterward, he escaped to France then traveled to South America in Exile, while learning Guerrilla warfare tactics during liberation attempts in Brazil and Uruguay. When he returned to Italy, he brought 1,000 red shirted volunteers along with weapons provided by Cavour with him and took over Sicily. Afterward, they speedily marched triumphantly north to Naples.


 * __Victor Emanuel__**

During the year of 1852 Victor made Count Cavour his prime minister. Cavour actually came from a Noble family and favored the liberal goals. Victor also hoped that he could make other states of italy to join his own, here by increasing his power and might. His only real interests were military, sports and Politics. He really took part in the first Italian War for Independence, under his father and there were 4 battles he was in. These battles took place in Pastrengo, Santa Lucia, Goito, and Custoza.

He became king in 1849 when his father handed over/abandon the thrown after a humiliating military defeat by the Astrians at Novara... He immediately obtained a rather favorable armistice(Truce/Treaty) from the Austrian commander, named Radetzky. Though the Treaty was not ratified by the Piedmontese chamber, he ended up firing his prime minister named Claudio Gabriele de Launay.

In 1852 he gave the man named Camillo Cavour the title of Prime Minister. They said he made a wise choice because Camillo Cavour was a poticial master mind and had a heavy role in the unification of Italy.

__**Camillo Cavour**__ Also born in 1810 and raised then educated in Turin, Piemonte. He served in Sardinian Army from 1826 to 1831. He also founded a Nationalist News paper called "II Risorgimento," about the unification of Italy and the expulsion of the Austrians. In 1848 he became a member of the Sardinian chambers of deputies, also in 1852 he was posted as prime minister by Victor Emanuel. Oh, and he was an architect of the Sardinia's alliance with Napoleon III against Austria. He soon resigned, to protest against the peace treaty the king, as in Victor Emanuel, was going to sign with Zuerich. Which caused a large presence of Austria through out Northern Italy. Soon in 1860 he became prime minister once again, After three other people voted for Annexation to Sardinia. He was known as Europe's most able politician and statesman of his time, Before that he died June 6th, 1861...

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