Fascist Italy

Italy - Viable Nation

- What problems faced the rulers of Italy after it became a unified country?

- Italy unifies quickly and inharmoniously

• Introduction
• Italy not a nation until 1871
• Count Meterich - "Italy is no more than a geographical expression"
• It has been split up for 1,500 years
• The last time was during the Roman empire reign
• Developed along different lines, e.g. North and South
• 19th century; nationalism develops
• Desire for unification is growing
• Risorgimento - 1860-1871
• liberal Italy... what the new government calls it
• ---> The new regime
• Range of challenges to face it
• Unification creates huge problems
• Survival protects
• Italy a divided place?
• Piedmont is a rich northern state
• Map 4... orange section
• Grown power in the 19th century
• Lombardy/ veneto - (Australian owned)
• Before unification of Italy there was a split into very different places.
• Papal States
• Papal states owned by the pope
• Kingdom of 2 Sicilies barely changes for last 2 centuries
• It is backward
• Autocratic -> Run by one person
• Desperately poor
• Many petty dukedom
• Most people speak dialects of Italian
• Diverse, very little in common with itself
• Inadequate unification
• Mainly foreign
• -1861 - French allies
• -1866 - Prussia allies
• Mozzini defined idea of hope
• "Itallia fara de se"
• ^ Italy will make itself
• Humiliating Italian defeats
• - Cutozza 1866
• - Naval defeat…