Cavour Unites Italy : While nationalism destroy empires, it also built nations. Italy was one of the countries to form from the territory of crumbling empires. Between 1815 and 1848, fewer and fewer Italians were content to live under foreign rulers. Cavour Leads Italian Unification : Italian nationalists looked for leadership from the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the largest and most powerful of the Italian states. The kingdom had adopted a liberal constitution in 1848. So, to the liberal ... Explore Italy 's transformation from fragmented states to a unified nation, forged by revolutionary events and visionary leaders. The unification of Italy , also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in 1861 in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy . Beginning in the 1840s, the unification was completed in 1871, the same year as the unification of Germany. Unification of Italy Ever since the fall of Roman Empire, Italy had been a mere geographical expressio n. It was divided into ... Unification of Italy stands as an important chapter in the history of the Italian peninsula. It shows the struggle of separate states to become a unified nation.
