Italian National Society

Italian organization

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The Italian National Society was a nationalist organization founded in 1857 by Giuseppe La Farina to support the unification of Italy. This organization played a role in the Risorgimento, the struggle for Italian unification. While Giuseppe Mazzini's "Young Italy" movement, founded in 1831, also aimed for a united, republican Italy, it relied on popular revival and education rather than clandestine methods. The Italian National Society, however, worked closely with leaders like Count Cavour, planning annexation and organizing military actions to achieve unification.12

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…Italian nationalists founded the monarchist-unionist Italian National Society, which supported the policies of Cavour. Under the presidency of Manin and the vice presidency of Garibaldi, the society achieved wider appeal than it would have achieved under the exclusive leadership of moderates. Although he did not outlaw conspiratorial movements, Cavour was…
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…Italian nationalists founded the monarchist-unionist Italian National Society, which supported the policies of Cavour. Under the presidency of Manin and the vice presidency of Garibaldi, the society achieved wider appeal than it would have achieved under the exclusive leadership of moderates. Although he did not outlaw conspiratorial movements, Cavour was…
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