Italian Politics
Italy- didn't exist before 1870
- divided by the Congress of Vienna into separate
states
- Austria grabbed N. Italy too
Carbonari- revolutionaries who wanted to unite Italy
- usually revolted and failed repeatedly
Count Camillo Cavour:
- prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont
- allied with France, defeated Austria
- got control of North Italy
- revolutionaries took South Italy, gave it to
Sardinia-Piedmont
1870- Italy took the Papal States- left the Vatican
to the Pope- united Italy in a constitutional monarchy