... of nation unity." While the Carbonari was now served little, but the "political immigration was the political hard school in which the political philosophy of Italian unification was gradually evolved." Romanticism still played a role in keeping alive a national spirit, but the crux of the question ... revolutionary republicanism, Cavour's intervention in the Naples and Papal States was reactionary. Yet he did keep foreigners out of Italy at a highly critical moment. By saving Rome from the Italian radicals, Cavour secured the acquiescence of Napoleon III in Piedmontese absorption of the...

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