The actual revolution that had led to the unification of Italy was attempts in 1859. Modernized Piedmont had removed the Austrian forces in Italy and unified all different nations in to one big nation. And there are several reasons why this one was success, whereas the other one in 1848 was …show more content…
Mazzini, who was actually the first one to try, unifying Italy with his book and organizing secret communities, was called the heart of the unification procedure. He inspired many other people in his era. The muscle of the unification was Garibaldi. He was the military leader who had conflict with Cavour, the prime minister of the Piedmont. He unified the Southern part whereas Cavour unified Northern, and eventually whole Italy. Although he had to give unification to Cavour and Victor Emmanuel, he was praised in the southern parts of Italy. And finally, Cavour was the brain of the unification. He did everything and used everything in order to achieve the unification- Realpolitik which was very similar to Bismarck in some ways-. One thing he did was to send troops to Crimean war and inform the situation to other European powers. These figures were the important figures in achieving the