... Risorgimento since 1830-1848. The French Revolution of 1830 detonated a train of small insurrections up and down Italy. A young lawyer of Modena, Misley had devised a scheme for the creation of a constitutional kingdom of Central Italy under the Duke Francis of Modena whom he had won over to his ideas. On the other hand, a silk merchant Menotti had visions of national unity based on Rome. When Sebastini, ... the greatest prosperity and the greatest advance in industrialization. Lombardy boasted the finest system of communications in Continental Europe, and it was not Austrian resistance...

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