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1821 can be considered the beginning year of the Risorgimento, with many constitutionalist movements arising in many parts of Italy, in Piedmont above all. A significant liberal entail, adverse to the monarchic absolutism, came along with the French Revolution. Hitherward two distinct streams merged in Piedmont: the young intellectuals inspired by the French Revolution; and military spheres that, past the Napoleonic adventure, were intolerant about the restoration imposed by the Congress of Vienna.
The tormented constitutional process set out with the student uprisings in Turin. The liberal agitations held [Read more...]
1821 can be considered the beginning year of the Risorgimento, with many constitutionalist movements arising in many parts of Italy, in Piedmont above all. A significant liberal entail, adverse to the monarchic absolutism, came along with the French Revolution. Hitherward two distinct streams merged in Piedmont: the young intellectuals inspired by the French Revolution; and military spheres that, past the Napoleonic adventure, were intolerant about the restoration imposed by the Congress of Vienna.
The tormented constitutional process set out with the student uprisings in Turin. The liberal agitations held an authoritative inspirer into the figure of Count Santorre di Santarosa. In such a turbulent situation Vittorio Emanuele I abdicated and left Turin, giving the power to the brother Carlo Felice, who ruled Modena. The young prince Carlo Alberto became regent, joined the liberal movement and granted a Constitution, yet he shortly had to flee to Novara because Carlo Felice disavowed him and revoked the Charta. A battle took place right in Novara, where the constitutionalists were defeated by the Piedmont Army, supported by the Austrian soldiers of Radetzky.
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