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Why did Camillo Benso, count di Cavour found the newspaper Il Risorgimento?
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Camillo Benso, count di Cavour, founded the newspaper Il Risorgimento to take advantage of the reforms and increased freedom of the press granted by King Charles Albert as the revolutionary climate of 1848 approached.1
Cavour utilized the publication as a platform to champion increasingly drastic political reforms and to advocate for the idea that an immediate war against Austria—which then ruled Lombardy and Venetia—was a historical necessity for Italy.1