Ten Minute History - The Unification of Italy (Short Documentary)
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This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers Italy in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and the tumultuous decades which followed it. The focus is on liberal revolutionaries, like Mazzini and Garibaldi, and their conservative opponents like Victor Emmanuel II and Cavour. The episode covers the many revolutions (emphasis on 1848) in Italy across the 19th century and the wars with the Austrian Empire with Napoleon III of France and Prussia. All of this led to a sudden explosion of Piedmont-Sardinian territory in the years 1859-1861 which ended with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Finally, Venice and Rome would be added to the kingdom, making Italy (almost) what it is today.
Recommended books:
A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan - Part of a great series of survey books. This one is great for Italy post-Napoleon I. It's pretty lacking with respect to the rest of Italian history (its coverage of the Renaissance/ Early Modern Italy isn't great, frankly.
I imagine a confused France opening his mailbox: "But... i did not order a Venice"
Better that than sweden getting it and use it to store pickled herring!
Italy: “Oh I ordered that, they must have sent it to the wrong person”
France: “oh ok, here you go”
@@Omega0850 What’s wrong with pickled herring?!
Its like if your sibling throws a ball over the fence because he's mad at you just for your neighbor to give it right back (this is something that has happened to me atleast 4 times)
@@rileydavidson207 ha, I lost my ball many times. my friend was black and my neighbours were apartheidists that fled south africa (very racist people), he'd just hop the fence and it it back hoping they wouldnt see. it was quite funny.
My grandfather's great grandfather fought for Garibaldi in the 1860s and we still have his uniform with us.
Patrick good to know patrick
Photos pls:)
Sure!
What a legend!
Waffle Fries My grandfather fought in the second world war and my great grandfather in the Spanish civil, there is a strong military tradition in my family
"Italy performed poorly but Prussia performed well." aka Foreshadowing
history doesn't quite repeat itself but it sure as hell rhymes quite a bit
Mussolini bad
@@specularspaghet4449 as well as Italy during WW1
@@operleutnant7235 nope we were quite good there
@@Boretheory I beg to differ. I am of the belief that the only reason you did “well” is that you fought and equally atrocious Austria-Hungary
Of course an Italian secret society would be called carbonari...
It didn't have anything to do with pasta though.
I might have. There is a theory that the pasta was created to honour the carabonari.... which in and of itself is a word which means 'charcoal burner'.
They were eating Carbonara between meetings..
They desguised themselves as cooks
@Constantinople Not even close, first because we know what Carbonari stems from: "Charcoal burner" the trade they took all their linguo and symbolism from, second because carbonara is a typically roman dish and "Carboneria" was born in Calabria (250 km south of Rome) and third the concept of "carbonara" didn't exist before WWII as it was called "cacio e uova" (cheese and eggs) and didn't necessairly have meat in it.
The French should have given Venice to the Pope to further perpetuate the trollfest.
@DeeDoubleU
I'd say more that would be Hearts of Iron or Vicky 2 esque.
HOI4 Multiplayer in a nutshell
That would be the ultimate culmination of the League of Cambrai
Pope: it took us 300 years but in the end... no one escapes
Corrupted Archangel down with the pope!!!!
Funny thing is in Vicky2, with the Hungarian Revolution kicking Austria’s butt at the same time, it’s really easy for Piedmont-Sardinia to kick the Austrians out of BOTH Lombardy and Venetia without French help.
I formed Italy in 1850, and quickly became 5th Great Power behind Britain, France, Russia, and the US.
*Austria losses war against Prussia and Italy*
Italy: so yeah mate can I get Venice now ?
Austria: I have a better idea
*Gives Venice to France*
King Lock15 mapper *France gives it to Italy anyway*
France: Surely this gift won't make us enemies in the near future
you mean 'Prussia: I have a better idea', cause Austria couldn't really choose who their land was being given to.
When your loosing a war in civ and give all your cities away
but Italians did a referendum....
Ah.... It was 2 day later, after France gave Venetian land to Italy.... :D
Indipendence for Veneto!
France: Deez
*France gifts Venice to Italy*
*How many independence wars do you want?*
Italy: *Yes.*
Since a bit of nothern east has been acquired during the First World War, early Italian sources called it the 4th war of independence. So yes.
Lol
After the First war of independence we couldn't stop, cause... one leads to another 😂😂
Fucking Normie!
@@Cjnw what?? What is Normie?
Fun fact: the color magenta is named after the Battle of Magenta, as the dye was developed around that time.
From all the magenta-like blood that was spilled, I bet.
And now they're one of the basic colors for subtraction. Neat.
Same for Solferino
i want to like thi comment but it is at 666 :o
@@elkheyou4061 Nörmie
"it's free real estate"
Happy I'm not the only one to notice
Lol
JIM!
Eat your veggies, comrade.
Literally
The Battle of Solferino was also the last major battle in world history where all the armies were under the personal command of their monarchs! and
And what?
You got my like thanks to your profile pic.
I'm positively shocked to realize that monarchs personally leading troops into battle persisted in Europe for so long. Honestly, it should have been scrapped in the early Renaissance at the latest. I mean, i know that in antiquity the idea was that even if someone took over your throne while you were at war you could always just take it back upon return because, well, you commanded an army, but one would think that in the era where rulers were not commonly displaced just because someone thought they might be things would look a tad different.
@@yarpen26 commanding was a political necessity. If the king didn't lead the army into, he would be perceived as a coward and weak. Also, if the king wasn't in charge of his forces, someone else would be, meaning a political rival, and popular military leader was always a concern to the monarch.
@@LZin-uk5nh The Russian Tsar/Zar/Czar (whichever way you prefer) took direct command of his armies in the first world war. Of course this meant two things, first of all the military command quality suffered. Secondly just as in ancient times taking personal command means the ruler takes the blame for every loss that occurs. And Russia suffered badly during the great war.
@@Apokalypse456 What's your point? Russia lost greatly in WW1?
"It went terribly" should be your catchphrase
He already as a catchphrase. FUN FACT, NO
What about "Why not?"
Translations count as well
@@Edmonton-of2ec That should be humankind's catchphrase.
Nicolas I know right?
"They lied"
Italian here: many times my foreign friends ask me why Corsica was never part of Italy, or why Italy never ever tried to recover the island. That's an interesting question, and I think that some people may have the same doubt after watching this very well made video. There are three main reasons: first, corsica was never part of Italy, it was part of the Republic of Genoa, wich in the end of 18th century decided to sell it legally to France, since maintaining genovese presence on the island and fighting off bandits and smugglers was too costly for the Republic. Second,, France owned corsica, and the French were our main allies against the Austrians during the "Guerre di Indipendenza" (indipendence wars) and going against our all lies would have been a very poor decision. Last but not least, despite its size, and the strategic importance of being an island in the middle of the Mediterranean, corsica doesn't really have much to offer. It's very very very scarcely populated (my home city, Bologna, has more inhabitants than all of corsica) no industries, no agriculture (inner corsica is CRAZILY mountainous) and the fact of being an island made it even more difficult and expensive to govern and control it, especially if you're a newly formed state like Italy, with many more problems to think about (peasants revolting against newly introduced taxes, bandits roaming the countryside, inflation, debt, and... Mafia of course)
Corsica may not be an economic powerhouse, but the landscapes and the beaches are amazing! GG to France for making so many parks, national reservations and protected beaches in the island. It's really an amazing place to visit as a tourist, everyone should travel there once in their life! Ciao from Italia.
It's rare to read an Italian who is neutral about this question. All your points are true and as you said at the time when Corsica became French, the concept of Italy itself was barely a thing. Moreover the Corsican has always had an independent state of mind, still today their insular identity is still remaining !
@@tonyhawk94 The concept of Italy has existed for 3 thousand years what are you talking about
@@matteobertotti The unification of Italy and Italy as we think today started in the late 19th century.
@@tonyhawk94 Italy as we think of today is a republic. Back then it was a monarchy. But I get that you mean "Italy as a unified entity started in the late 19th century", and that it's true. But in the previous comment you wrote "[to that day] the concept of Italy itself was barely a thing". And that's blatantly false. Cause the concept of Italy dates back millennia.
@@tonyhawk94 The ancient Athenians were Greeks,? Their attitudes have changed a lot over 2000 years but they were still Greeks, right? & by this logic the Romans were Italians? They just called it by a different name (the Roman Empire instead of Italy)
It's funny how Savoy, which started sardinia-piedmont and soon the Kingdom of Italy, wouldn't actually be part of Italy.
@@Just-tv7gi No it started in the kingdom of arles in the 1000s.
I guess it's just like Prussia, because Prussia isn't part of Germany anymore.
@@ThisCharmlessMan Half true. East Prussia isn't, but western Prussia (which included Berlin) IS part of Germany today.
@@thunderbird1921 You are referring to Brandenburg (where Berlin is located) and Pomerania. Brandenburg and western Pomerania are part of modern Germany. Prussia itself was the region around Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad) and Danzig (modern Gdańsk), which are part of Russia and Poland respectively.
@@Just-tv7gi it's in nowadays france, but it never was part of the kingdom of france. The Duchy of Savoy was a vassal of the HR Empire
The difficulty with unification ran deeper than political rivalries. Language and culture were also divisive factors. Hell, Piedmontese is more closely related to Catalan and French than it is to Tuscan or Sicilian. And then there's Sardinia, which is its own damned thing... Honestly, given the diversity that characterizes the peninsula, the fact that it ever unified - and so cohesively at that - has always amazed me.
You could say that it was unified politically, but not *de facto*. As you said, differences were cultural, linguistic, economic, that's why in Italy we have the word "Campanilismo", which I think translates to "Chauvinism". Basically it means "thinking that the belltower in your hometown is the best and all the others suck". This mentality still holds true today.
In a few generations, sufficient propaganda and repression can achieve anything.
@@49metalnearly 200 year passed, but the situation is still the same
What are u even talking about?? They are all Italians. Dialects don’t mean that they are different people. Also economic divides doesn’t make the south Italians less Italian that those in the north.
@@perparimarsenal Yeah, but they don't think of themselves as Italian. They think of themselves as Lombard, or Venetian, or Tuscan, or Sardinian, or Neapolitan, or Sicilian. There's hardly one unified Italian identity.
"beloved across the continent and North America"
What
Garibaldi fought in the War of Farrapos in Brazil where he met Anita his wife and comrade in arms. The Garibaldis are to this day historical figures of Brazilian history, and Giuseppe Garibaldi is romanticized as " the hero of two worlds"
italian biscuits were named after garibaldi
Same in Mexico. There’s plazas and streets named after him there.
Piece of shit Republican who helped to destabilize the strong empire and give way to the banana republic which brazil has become. yeah I hate him and it's another shit figure that is treated as a hero in history.
@@le0shadow ok boomer
@@dfens4519 fuck off libtard
"Your mother"
He make an affair with his mother, lol.
I mean... it is a pretty aggressive foreign policy.
valideniz ile eyleyeyim cima
açayım aleti, olsun lal ü ama
I've just made up these lines. It is in Old Turkish and a gentle way of expressing affair with his mom. No need to thanks humanity.
"And by ambitious i mean aggresive" (Your mother)
THAT'S GOLD!
I'm early, let me think of a joke:
Austrians maintaining stability across the empire
Follow up joke:
A Holy Roman Emperor from a different family
Edward Collier Let me think of a joke:
Italians winning WW2
Well they did change sides and won right?
General Graywing dun ruin my joke lmao
Ok
Steppe peoples not conquering
Garibaldi was extremely popular in the US. There's even a small mill town in the US on the Oregon coast named after Garibaldi. The post master and primary land owner of the town declared the name in celebration of Garibaldi unifying Italy.
Fun fact: one of the soldiers who fought with Garibaldi then migrated to the US and was present during the battle of Little Big Horn, making it out alive
Garibaldi's Life Is quite amazing and interesting , he was celebrated in UK in crazy manners, called by Lincoln to help in the civil war , and many other stuff , He worked for meucci in new york making candles ecc.
There is a Garibaldi Street in many towns in the US where Italian immigrants lived.
When the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861 the first Capitol city was *Turin*, and not Florence, as stated here 07:55, which became the second capitol city in 1865.
And then the third one
Napoleon honestly set the stage for so much conflict over the century that culminated into the Great War. Geez. *Thud*.
It’s all free real estate
He had to face Otto Von Bismarck. Not an easy foe
Height Difference Losing against the Prussians and getting upset over if.
Which then led to ww2
Charles leMagne
Sicily's history in a nutshell: get invaded by carthage, get invaded by romans, get invaded by byzantine greeks, get invaded by moors, get invaded by normans, get invaded by aragonese, get invaded by piedmontese, get invaded by the allies in WW2.
In 3000 years many things happen for a relatively small island in the core of Mediterranean sea
Err, you left out the Sicilian expedition in 415 BC led by the Athenians.
@@Nobody4rpresident which failed miserably. So not much of an invasion.
@@PaoloGarlasco Yeah, those 5th century neocon/neoliberals destroyed Athens with their hubris and hegemonic goals. America has gone down the same road. Next stop is a Phillip II and an Alexander to walk thru the weakened divided US. Like Twain said, history doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes.
@@Nobody4rpresident neocons/neoliberals? On the 5th century? That doesn't even make sense.
I have this feeling that if the video didn't stop the narrator would just keep going straight through the modern times and then start rapidly predicting the future with a wry sense of humour
SCP
@@zonnytiger2371 what does SCP means?
@@nitishkumarjurel241 Secure Contain Protect its a fictional site for well creepypastas basically
@@zonnytiger2371 okay thanks now I got it.
Hi everyone, sorry about the delay for this episode. Back on schedule now. Next episode is 'The Dutch Revolt and the 80 Years' War'. If there's any graphical issues let me know since Final Cut has been a pain recently. Thanks for watching.
Garibaldi’s Nightmare is fun.
Your end card doesn't have the links in it. Just thought you'd like to know. No criticism it might just be my phone tho
Ten Minute History Great content man, keep it going
That's okay ! :)
Great video, as always - informative and entertaining. At time of writing this reply, you have 1 dislike. Probably the Pope...
Unify Italy: *check*
Dominate the continent: _Oof_
It's still a work in progress
Btw, that was never Mazzini's goal. On the contrary, he had hoped in an alliances of nations against tyranny, and wanted each ethnic group to rule their own land.
@@andreastagnimorisi1841 LMAOO he wanted to revive roman empire. he himself was dictator allied with dictator
@@QWERTY-gp8fd Dude you mixed up Mazzini and Mussolini.
@@Kaiyanwang82 oh.
5:43 *City of Nice, given to France, was birthplace of Giuzeppe Garibaldi. So Garibaldi was strongly against French support.*
And then he fought for the French, leading a French army in 1870-71.
But yeah he was against any French support.
@@silverpleb2128
He was against French intervention in Italy, not against the French themselves.
Fin fact, when Garibaldi was born, Nice was part of France. It was initially supposed to remain part of France at the end of the Napoleonic wars, but when Napoleon came back from Elba and was defeated again after the 100 days, the Coalition decided to put harsher terms on France so they lost additional territory (Nice and Savoy was part of this additional territory lost).
@@salviniusaugustus6567 Nice and savoy were part of the Kingdom (and duchy, before) for centuties
@@andreamarino6010
When Garibaldi was born, it was part of France.
Its insane the amount of this videos that start with Napoleon.
The man really change history.
And he was of Italian family too XD
@@Boretheory Napoleon was first a Corsican independentist then the emperor of the frenchs
None of these two titles make him Italian
@@mrworldwide7387 weren't the parents born in Corsica when it was still genoese?
@@mrworldwide7387 with Italian roots and Italian parents!
@@antoeckhartbut being french
Who else just love the " Soon " cards?
Rup Ganguly I do. It's funny but ominous......
Me
Never stop making these.
This aged poorly :(
The pope: stop taking my land, no heaven for your sins
Republicans soldiers: tonight we dine in hell
No they gave command to a Jew eazy
@@Boretheory they were three dimensions ahead
@@l.u.i.s._.8452 we’re always 3 dimensions ahead unluckily the ones that are in power usually are behind us. Making the country go the opposite way of what it should go. A bit like in ww2 where Messe predicted the issues of the military and explained how to fix it and had Bald retard do the opposite and dismiss him.
haha those guys were badass
I like your channel. You do good research, you're funny and you give your sources for further reading. You also ask us for our support in a subtle way, which is appreciated.
simp
@@Chocolatnave123 BRUH
4:57“Able to pursue a more ambitious foreign policy, by ambitious i mean aggressive” *your mother sign*
"Austria then lost Venice..."
"To France."
7:39 Obbedisco
That was the word said by Garibaldi when the king told him to stop, litterally meaning "I obey"
2x speed. I'll get in in 5 minutes. Life hacks.
Hunter Sterling how do u make 2x tho ?
Hunter Sterling 2x speed*
Click the 'Settings' button on the bottom right, click 'Speed', select 0.5 to get Twenty Minute History or 2 to get Five Minute History.
Red Ice I am on my phone...
Tap the three dots settings button in the top left, tap 'Playback speed', select 0.5 to get Twenty Minute History or 2 to get Five Minute History. That's on Android, don't know about iOS.
I remember that Cavour basically tricked the French to go to war with Austria because he signed a military defense pact which was achieved thanks to Virginia Oldoini, countess Castiglione, "persuading" (read: seducing) Napoleon III. Therefore France would have intervened only in the case of Austria's attack. After that, Cavour made the army march and train alongside the Austrian border which enraged the Austrians who gave him an ultimatum to demobilize which he refused. Thus Austria attacked and the French were dragged into the war to fight for us.
I still can’t believe ppl is that stupid
The French offered undeniable and crucial help during the Second war of unification (Solferino and Magenta, the two major battles of the war, were won by the French. Throughout the war the French had the overwhelming majority of guns and manpower as well), but I think France also made a lot from it. They got the Pope’s favour, got more influential by winning a war, annexed Nice and Savoie. So I think it’s actually a win-win situation, France didn’t mind fighting Austria and Napoleon III liked Italy as he had grown up there as a kid.
Savoy and Nice was the trick persuading France to go to war with Austria, not "countess Castiglione".
@@gontrandjojo9747 yes, that was part of the treaty, but you also had to convince France to sign on those terms which was the apparent role of the countess. It was also thanks to her that Piedmont was even allowed to participate in the congress of Paris after the crimean war. Napoleon III's favoritism for her is also well documented.
When you fight so hard it leads to the creation of the *fucking Red Cross*
"Like some Discount Holy Roman Empire"! Love it! LOL
Best comment!
Aldi has entered the chat
A fact: Giuseppe Garibaldi fought in the Revolução Farroupilha in southern Brazil for the proclamation of the República Riograndense against the monarchy at the time.
Que merda que um Italiano tava fazendo no Sul do Brasil? Ajudando Gaucho? Faz sentido, eles ja tavam se matando em suas casas por diferencas culturais, por que nao ajudar os outro que tao se matando pelas mesmas razoes
Portugues ta ruim por causo que o teclado do meu computador ta em Ingles e eu nao sei mudar
This episode was SO GOOD. I'm a tour guide in Nice so this will be really helpful for explaining to visitors.
Love a fresh simple history straight after a gym sesh.
It's great when it's only factual and not baised or opionaited. Like stupid shit from drunk history.
its called drunk history for a reason.
Should be called biased history, and its not the only one.
The Bandits roaming the south of Italy still exist.
They just renamed themselves to the Mafia.
Have you ever seen that bandits in south Italy never appaired before 1861? In this video there are a lot of fake news (as in a lot of other video that talks about italian unification) it’s not true that the north was richer than the south:the south had the first train in italy, Napoli was one of the first city in the world to have illumination in the world,we had a really big neavy 500.000 soldiers the only industries in italy before 1861 and more than 400 milions of lire (in gold coins) while kinhdome of sardinia (an old french kingdome) had only 40 milions of lire and in your opinion 1000 men with o li few cannons could conquer this kingdome?
Not at all, Mafia started to be a thing only at the end of ww2
No, the "Mafia" and the "Briganti" are completely different, make no mistake
Isn't the Mafia basically composed of italianized Albanians called Arberesh?
Axodius nope 😂😂😂
Great video! There's a mistake thou, as in 1861 the capital was still in Turin. It would change to Florence only in 1864, before finally moving to Rome in 1871.
Another curiosity: the first world war, for us Italian, is called also the "fourth war of independence" because in that war we make free the " trentino" and "friuli-veneziagiulia", but don't end the liberation... Well... that is another story
"Soon" gets me every single time
At least hating the Austrians was something the Italian states could Agee on.
Because who doesn't hate the Austrians
@@azelfdaboi5265 yo, but this is all in the past, you even have south tyrol!
today italy and austria are🤝
Hi from burgenland, austria :)
@@philipp0209Chiesaaaaaaaa
@@philipp0209 yeah... I mean... We are using all of our hate on France now so...
@@philipp0209 oh fine a mam that don't say tHeY sWiTcH sIdEs
Man I just love that picture of him using the “soon” it just gets every time
One thing that is not stated in this video is that the concept of an united Italy precedes the 1800 by a LOT. A conspicuous amount of intellectuals, poets, novelists and artists dreamed about the unity of the peninsula well before the Renaissance. Dante Alighieri was one of them and he was born in the mid 1200, late Middle-age! Although, these ideas where shared only between the literate classes and they took centuries to reach the regular folks.
To say it more accurately: a couple of intellectual men wished for a unified Italy remembering the good ol days of the Roman Empire, but the Italian Nation did NOT exist. The Italian unification was an act of violence that suppressed and destroyed many cultures through brutal force to satisfy the gains of a couple of kings who didn't even speak Italian at home
Yeah especially considering Petrarca ( not from Latium) gave his support to the Roman reppublic that claimed to unify Italy and rule Europe
I studied this and German Unification as part of my history course in Lower Sixth (age 16-17).
So 1870 was the year of unifications? Italy, Germany, USA (re-integration of Georgia, the last confederate state)... who else?
around that time greece took the ionian islands (1864) and thessaly (1881) not complete unification but still an important expansion
1871 actually
Re USA
Canadian Confederation in 1867
I love the fact that garibaldi ran to brazil and joined a revolution in my city
yeah that was pretty epic. you know what else i love? the fact that you wont ever look like a woman and wont live to be 30
@@idk-jb7lx ???
@idk what's wrong chud? :D
Flag 🤢
@@idk-jb7lx based
“Italy preformed poorly” that is a summary of every Italian military engagement after unification.
Battle of Vittorio Veneto and Italo Turkish war: *are we a joke to you?*
@@boratsagdiyev9829 Yes.
131 official Victories in 159 years of history
*Am i a joke to you?*
Just check the Battle of Menton if you want a good laugh.
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This is one of those channels where I don’t understand why they don’t have more subscribers
3:56. “Louis I’m not the emperor yet Napoleon”
5:30 “Louis I’m now an emperor just like my uncle Napoleon III”
Austria used to control almost all of Italy,
but now they don't even have South Tyrol.
but today italy and austria are🤝
Its called Alto Adige
I say it’s deserved
@@Nome_e_CognomeNo Alto Adige is the italian Name for South Tyrol-Trentino. Italy united the two territories of Bolzano and Trento to achieve an Italian majority in the population. But for Austria only South Tyrol counts.
The characters at the end waving goodbye are so adorable
"Like some discount Holy Roman Empire" dude the HRE was itself a discount Holy, discount Roman, discount Empire
No one:
The Pope: *nO hEaVen fOr yOu*
NoRmIe
the kingdom of italy was founded on my birthday :)
Ok
Thats why Italy makes money with food
I love how perfect the length of your videos are
Any Victoria 2 players ?
Yeah. I knew Sardinia-Piedmont unified Italy, but now I know how they did it.
I’ve sunk more hours into that game than I care to admit
I play so many paradox games
Haven't gotten to Stellaris though.
Yeet
Ever try getting Fascist?
You are simply and utterly wonderful. Every time I watch one of your videos I feel better.
Finally, some history of my country!
Excellent job, enjoyed every second. Thank you!
France just giving Venice to Italy sounds like something straight out of eu4
1. Nice and Savoy were not handed to France in 1859 as France had pulled out of the war just after Solferino leaving Veneto in Austrian hands. Instead, France secured Nice and Savoy a year later in exchange for accepting Upper Italy's annexation of Emilia, Romagna, and Tuscany.
2. In 1861 the capital city remained Turin, and moved to Florence only in 1865. The move was to make the capital more secure against French invasion and to reassure France and Austria that Italy had given up ambitions of annexing Rome, which it hadn't
3. The mission of Garibaldi's one thousand to Sicily happened in 1860, just after the annexation of Emilia, Romagna, and Tuscany, and not in 1859 when the Franco-Sardinians defeated Austria
Excellent job
I'm a long time student of history and I just love your videos! Your ten minute presentations are amazingly complete for such a short time. You are filling in the gaps in my learning. Your illustrations are great and the little signs that the little men carry are absolutely inspirational and quite funny! Please keep up the wonderful work!
This is good. thanks for making such awesome content
Another masterpiece.
ur animation and vids is always awesome
"Soon"
Best sign ever.
Brilliant! I remember Cavour, our secondary school history teacher was obsessed with him!
I can’t believe I’m only pointing this out now, but then Kingdom of Italy ended in 1946, not 1945
8:58
"Italy performed poorly but ____ performed well" sums up Italy's entire existence
Ah yes we performed poorly at Lugano when the Hre lost against 5 Italian cities? Or When the French lost their entire navy and had their king almost captured? Losing 250k troops? Or …. Enough?
2 words
Roman empire
@@SmashingCapital roman reppublic in 1800s would be enough France lost every battle except one Naples all of them.
@@Boretheory false
Your mother is a slut
excellent video!! Keep up the great work!
Great video. Would love to see you do some videos on some of the republic's before the unification. Like Venice, Genoa and so on
I am the only one that felt sad when Pope appeared with the "You Promised" card? And I am not even Catholic. It just looked so sad
The pope was the reason the first indipendence war failed he deserves nothing
I really enjoy learning history from your video's! Could you make one about the Byzantine empire?
Loved this, thank you!
You should have called Louie, I’m not the emperor yet, Napoleon, Louie, I’m despitly trying to live up to my uncles reputation, Napoleon
Louis*
He lived up to it pretty well actually, not strictly by military achievements, but he industrialized France and modernized Paris. You have to remember he began his rule with Russia, Austria, and Prussia very antagonistic against France, and in less than 20 years managed to isolate Russia and Austria to deal them crushing defeats. Of course this helped the rise of Prussia however so eh...
@@randomcommenter100 and was absolutely fucked by Prussia
@@randomcommenter100 I like LN, to be honest, mostly because he defied all expectations. He started off as a power-hungry baffoon ("Yeah, I'm the first president of the republic ever but hey, that's not enough, I want to be an eternal dictator, but hey, that's not enough, i want to be an emperor!") but actually turned out surprisingly competent, at least for a while. The 1850s were great for France both domestically and abroad; things did start getting out of hand in the 1860s though (most notably the botched Mexican bonanza). Overall, however, an interesting individual.
@@yarpen26 Yes
I swear the first capital was Turin the Florence for 9 years the Rome
Thanks for the video!!
Best channel on CZcams. Love your videos.
Turin was the first capital of Italy
Maybe that's why the Shroud is there!
@@theman-34 Turin was also the capital city of italy from 1861 to 1865, when florence became the capital, and then rome, in 1871
Wasn't that Florence
@@galatheumbreon6862 No. Florence became capital in 1864, after the September Convention.
@@Cjnw The Shroud is in Turin because in the Middle Age it became a property of the Dukes of Savoy. The capital of the dukedom was brought to Turin in the XVI century, and the Shroud followed the dukes (who later on became Kings of Sardinia, and then of Italy).
Garibaldi is quite well known in Argentina too and many streets, squares and schools has been named after him.
Much more complex than I had ever considered, but it makes sense. Great video
Nothing about Italy is ever simple....
I watch all these and I’m convinced that literally as long is there is someone to universally not like people will stand together through anything.
7:59
Victor Emmanuel: We have made Italy.
Cavour: Now we must make Italians.
Kinky.
It's a sad truth that still goes on today........ Before making italy, they should have made italians, because right now italy is an amazing nation but with a people I wanna forget even exists
It's an actual historical quote which literally every kid learns at school in Italy.
I sometimes Think that Germany's history as a national State is pretty Short because unficiation is not that far back, but I almost always forget that Italy is only a bit older as well! I don't know if there are much Differences between the former Italian states until this day like in Germany, but that shared fate definetly something that connects the two people by a special Feeling.
-Greetings from Germany
German history is very long as well if we count Holy Roman Empire and ancient Germans.
@@erichvonmanstein1952 Italian history is with the Greek one the oldest in the continent so yeah
Excellent video. This would have been really useful when I was studying Italian Unification for A-level History (UK).
Weird to think this video is half a decade old
I still find it weird how Italy managed to unify even tho it performed terrible in every war
We still need Savoy, Istria, Nice, Corsica, Malta, North Tirol, and some other little stuff
nope. We french , need Aoste walley who speak french who is an official language and turin
Basta con le guerre e le dispute tra fratelli europei
@@Hugo-cn9no hove Corsica back and we give you Aosta
then italy should be divided up again and given back to austria
Better give South Tyrol back to the rightful owner!
I’m glad you uploaded! I was so bored so thanks lol
This video was very helpful for my class!
wow! So austria was the only obstacle in forming both a united italy and a united germany
Not the only problem, but I get what you mean.
And that’s why they got incredibly fucked
@@nitishkumarjurel241 actually the French were quite a pain in both cases.
They did not allow Italy to get Latium so they had to get it while France was losing to Prussia.
"Italy performed poorly" at least they're consistent
Not really considering they did extremely well in the first indipendence war when they even more outnumbered. For example France lost three time a 7000 vs 600 with Italy being outnumbered or Naples losing 5 times with numerical advantage. Austria peformed better in all this battles thanks to even bigger numerical advantage and better ( uncommon) leadership.
I love wvweything on this channel I am on a binge. I have RW so many animations dry/deadpan dialoge boxes. They are very funny I think lol.
Great stuff!
1851 Guiseppe Garibaldi anchored his boat in Viña Del Mar, Chile. Around that time my Italian great great great grandfather was left an orphan because his mother died in childbirth after arriving in Chile and the young father, heartbroken, gave up his child to the Astete family and he went back on a boat to somewhere else. Our true last name is Cotal, but ive never found any history about this last name?
Never heard of that surname in Italy… Maybe we can look into it.