What problems did Camillo Benso, count di Cavour leave unresolved when he died in 1861?

When Camillo Benso, count di Cavour, died in June 1861, he left behind several critical unresolved issues for the newly unified Kingdom of Italy:

• The Roman Question: Cavour firmly believed that Rome must be the capital of the new state. However, he had not yet determined how to achieve this or how to reconcile the pope and Roman Catholic opinion to the loss of the church's temporal power.12
• Political Stability: Cavour failed to leave behind a stable parliamentary majority or a cadre of responsible, capable leaders prepared to manage the administration of the unified nation in his absence.1
• National Integration: While Cavour had successfully overseen the initial unification, the kingdom faced deep-seated challenges he did not live to address, including severe economic imbalances between the north and south, widespread illiteracy, and the emergence of violent rural unrest, such as brigandage in the south.13

Cavour’s early death was considered a significant misfortune for Italy, as it occurred before these foundational problems of the new state could be properly settled.1