You all asked for it, and here it is! This was a particularly fun one to make, so I really hope you enjoyed. If you did, why not find out why the island of Corsica never ended up a part of Italy? You can do so, here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9SknZmLuLeroI0.html Also, big shoutout to Thomas Wagner. He knows what he did!

Fun fact: when the italian army put the city of Rome under siege, pope Pius IX threatened to excommunicate the commandr if he tried to besiege the city. How did the king respond to this threat ? Simple, he replaced the former officer with another guy who was a jew. Smart points

Its interesting how both italy and germany managed to unify their nations, despite them being divided for centuries.

"Some built trade empires that extended across the Mediterranean, while others were dominated by foreign powers themselves." Well, both, in the case of Venice

1:03 although there always was the idea of Italian identity, as various people such as Berengar of Friuli, Dante, Machiavelli, Petrarca, Cola di Rienzo and the Lombard league were all to some extent Italian “patriots” (i know that in the Middle Ages the concept of patriotism wasn’t really present, though). Von Metternich said it because obviously as an Austrian he didn’t want Italy united. His statement has a ground of truth, but overall it IS false. Last time Italy was just a “geographical expression” was before the Social Wars.

The idea of an Italian identity predate Napoleon by centuries

There are some impresigions, but overall the summary is correct. The only thing that is absolutely wrong, is that Italian was only a geography name. Despite the difference and the divisions, the concept of Italians, Italian people, Italian culture has always been present through out history. One example was Foscolo (Italian poet) that blamed Napoleon for the treaty of Villafranca 1798, not unified Italy against his hope and the hopes of many more that finally saw in Napoleon the liberator who would have given Italy is freedom and unity.

C'è un errore ,La Corsica è esclusa dalla storia Italiana ma in realtà fa parte degli stati preunitari Italiani ma al momento dell'unità italiana è rimasta sotto dominazione straniera

At 4:12 you say Piedmont was the only State ruled by Italians, which is not true. The Papal States were not formally subject to any foreign power. At 8:27 you say the Austrians invaded first, which is true, but it was basically Cavour provoking them by sending an exaggerate amount of troops to their borders (the alliance with France was a defensive pact).

The only thing I would add, is the fact that, the idea of a United Italy it's very old, from the after the Romans and the Middle Ages. It wasn't too popular yet as an Idea in most part, but it still did exist. For example it's the reason why Dante and Boccaccio(but many more too) are considered founders of the nation, not only for their efforts to unify the language, but for the expressed sentiment of a United Italy. But yes, we need to wait until the age of revolutions, i.e. 1775-1869~, to have somewhat of the first footprints of an actual national.

What a long and complicated path to Italian Unification. Well presented and still with your inimitable wit.

Great video! To the point, concise and lovely graphics. Any literature to recommend on the Italian unification? What sources did you draw upon for this video?

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Fun fact: Garibaldi before this had tried his republican ideals in Brazil, and was an active part in the "Revolução Farroupilha", actually managing to do incredible things there, of course he lost since Brazil was starting its ascension and zenith of its power, which would last until 1889

Great video!

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9:44 "The loss of Nice which, unlike Savoy, was Italian-speaking" In 1871 a civil unrest broke out in the region calling for a new referendum about the annexation since there were rumors of it being rigged, as The Times of England said already in 1860. France sent 10,000 troops to Savoy to restore order. Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was a huge proponent of the democratic process before the armed one, after aiding the French army in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war and then immediately supporting the birth of the French Third Republic, to point out the italian question to the new National Assembly applied himself as a candidate to the Parliament in the Alpes-Maritimes departement where he won by far. He however attended to only one session before resigning immediately.

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amazing video, I used it in my History class. Also thanks to all the people for their corrective comments

giuseppe garibaldi is very famous in the south of brazil for he came to fight other wars here too, we even have a city with his name

how we Europeans learn history at school in one word: Wars

Small mistake on the map of Piemont-Savoie : it shows it still possess Bresse and Bugey (western part of the country, west of Savoy) while it was handed over to France in 1601 in exchange of Saluzzo.

In one word: Ligurians. Those crazy fouls made Risorgimento possible. From Garibaldi to Mazzini, passing through Bixio (Garibaldi's right arm), Mameli (writer of Italian anthem) and Novaro (composing Italian anthem music). Viva l'Italia 🇮🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇹

6:28 that probably is the greatest burn in Italian history, savage.

2:36 That's The kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia you didn't mentioned Lombardy which is the most important region in Italy

Is there a source for that Radetzky quote about Italian generals?

I know a lot of people have a preference for 20th century history, but jesus so much _stuff_ happened in the 19th century it makes every other century feel like filler

The worst thing for Italian unification were the Papal States. People still felt “Italian” even tho they were separated

Facial hair: this video YES

Very important correction. It is totally false that Sardina-Piedmont was the only state ruled by italian king. Bourbons of Two Sicilies (deriving from Spanish Bourbons and not directly from French ones, other unaccuracy of the video) were Italian. First in Line was Carlo III (that after a while became King of Spain), that was spanish. since his son, Ferdinando I of Two Sicilies, that was born and grown in Italy, the dinasty became fully italian and the Kingdom was fully autonomous

Italy is still devided

The algorithm brought me here.

Metternich Palace in Vienna is the Italian Ambassy!

This is good at including Thom information.

a tale from my worldbox worlds. I would like to tell you a tale of a continent far away from here, it had many realms on it and many realms was born though revolts but during my travels one of the realms has my eye called the realm of the Ewi, the realm had many threats near its borders but it overpowered all of them but one problem that could end its rule is revolts but it didn't happen yet. its people were strong and kind hearted but the other realms thought the realm of Ewi was just a warlord nation but the Besym people did not think them that way, they thought the Ewi people has people who could match their strength. that was quite a short tale I have told I hope you liked the tale I told.

I don’t understand the part 1.000 sailors sailed to the island of Sicily and took it without a resistance. Didn’t Kingdom of Two Sicilies had any troops there? Or any garrisones? I very much would like to know that part.

The idea of an “unified” Italy is a bit of a falsity, however. There were always original Italic tribes that naturally existed there. Then the Romans took over and everything was unified for almost thousands of year, leaving their huge genetic footprint and unifying completely under this Roman Italic original tribe. After the empire fell, some different leaderships took over and this fractured things for a bit in history, but Italy has mostly always been unified, save for a small blip in history in the overall scheme of things. I hope people can follow what I’m saying.

It’s not that the Austrians saw it first: the alliance between Piedmont and France was a defensive one, and Cavour purposely instigated an Austrian attack by mobilizing near the border in order to force France to give military assistance

And during this time, the Pope was “defeated” by a Jewish soldier

4:16 into the video is incorrect. The kingdom of the two Sicilies was also ruled by Italians. Why not?

very interesting video, I used to live there

Something else you forgot to mention was that Cavour had actually briefly resigned following the 2nd War Of Italian Independence when he found out that France had made peace with Austria without informing Piedmont-Sardinia. By the way, losing this war would have direct domestic consequences for Austria.

Hace un calor brutal aquí, pero firmes con el ejercicio 🙂

This Chanel should get more views

I can imagine the reaction in France to the aftermath of the Seven Weeks War: Random French official - "Sire, did we order a Venice?" Napoleon III - "No,we ordered a Belgium and a Luxembourg,but not a Venice." Random official - "What should we do with it?" Napoleon III - "We don't want it, send it to Italy, it'll help complete the set."

Instead of speaking about the causes of Italian unification the whole video spoke about the whole thing, without even mentioning the causes!

Please do videos on Sicily! My family came from the aeolian islands on the eastern side of Sicily.. and there is a lot of history there.. Did the aeolian islands have a significant role in Sicily’s history?

The premise is severely incorrect. Please read Dante or Petrarca.

It should also be mentioned that Louis Napoleon/Napoleon III was also a member of the Carbonari at one point,so he was somewhat sympathetic to Piedmont-Sardinia.

Sicily and "Sicily." Well done

Interesting I’ve always been curious why my family packed everyone up in the 1850s (rough estimation) from the lake Como area n moved to the United States. I still wonder why What was going on in northern Italy at the time to drive them to sell their holding n move everyone…

An undeclared conquist's war

It was you!

So much say of Italian history and the fate of the peninsula was taken away from half of the damn people who lived there. The South barely played a role in all this and just got swept up in it only to get the short end of the stick and have to have not one but TWO diasporas to escape ever increasing poverty. Such a shame.

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Giuseppi Gariboldi... lol

That map design. That number design. No I don't get it...

The similarity between Italian and Yugoslavian unification is quite remarkable. In the failure of Yugoslavia we see what could have happened to Italy had history been different. Greetings from Serbia.

Interesting video, ever thought about making a bit more complex video of how the romans ( in the italian peninsula) gradually evolved into Italians? Ive heard most people say that Italians werent romans and Romans werent Italian and therefore shouldnt claim descent from them.

I wonder how unified Italy feels now. Would the average person associate themselves with the nation, their state, or perhaps even their home city.

Italians have been calling themselves "Italian" since the X century, well before the concept of "piedmontese", really wrong example.

Idk

3:56 - Wait a second! Why the fuck did the British empire name Guelph, Ontario after the pope's side? It should be Ghibelline, Ontario

How were all wars paid for? They were all paid for by one bank. How can one bank rule the world? Unification

Can u do a video about how the Iberian peninsula isn't 1 country like Italy, I think it's amazing how we Portugal didn'tget assimilated by the castillians

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All successfully and permanently united their nations...meanwhile Yugoslavia did its best to break appart. Just stupid.

What caused the peninsula to split into smaller kingdoms for over 1000 years?

I dont know why they dont try to restart the roman empire again, just try to reincorporate gaul, hispania, greece, dalmatia and then some of north africa for grain shipments. Later they can get syria and egypt

IMO I think due to Southern Italian friendliness to the Russian Empire it's independence had to go. As stated on Wikipedia the British funded alot of money for it due to it's stragetic location close to the Suez canal an not wanting the Russian Empire to have any part in the Medditeranean. I can only imagine some British and/or Northern Italian's bottom-line being negatively effected, resulting in such a "unification". Just follow the money.

I want to see an alt history video about the poor uniting Italy but it just seems to far from reality ig

Short answer: UK

One word: France.

one word to describe it, messy

wait ...HOLD UP. you telling me...they breathly restored the roman republic??!?!?

As an Italian studying italian history I can say that this old version is outdated, it was an excuse put toghter from the European powers to justify the colonization of Italy, for example the south was almost always governed by Spain with no buts or ifs, Tuscany passed from Spain, France, Austria and France again, Italy is massive strategic point in the mediterranean and everyone wanted a piece of it for example the Treaty of Aranjuez (1801) was signed on 21 March 1801 between France and Spain. It confirmed a previous secret agreement in which Spain agreed to exchange Louisiana for territories in Tuscany. Those little states wanted to be unified, infact the guelfi and ghibellini wars happened but the puppeteer wouldn't let it happen until the Savoia broke from the hold of France and finally had the guts to stand up so almost every Italian state autonomously annexed himself, in reality Italy's story is tragic but romantic, we have no friends in Europe only predators ever since the fall of the roman empire, i hope you can read this

it’s james bisonettes fault

italia nasce nel 1861 e non esiste regno piemonte sardegna, ma solo regno di sardegna

Pizza dough

because people realized being a bunch of weak tiny states was dumb

Was it pizza?

11:26 Italy performing terribly at war, relying on German help. I'm sure they'll improve after that so that doesn't happen again in the future, right?

The unifications are the best thing that has happened to the peoples that have done them, history shows it, the balkanizations, on the contrary, are the worst thing that can happen to a country.

Corsica is not yet liberated to this day

What cause Italian unification? Answer: Italians 🍕🍜🍦

At 10:14 there is a serious inaccuracy. The peasants of the Two Sicilies never rose up against the Bourbons of Naples. They were catholics and monarchists. Counterwise, they took up arms to defend their homeland, the guerrilla warfare in the mountains lasted almost a decade after the annexation. The population of the south suffered tremendous violence from the Savoyard army. History needs to be deepened, don't stop at the surface.

Since when the savoy are considered Italians? They were as Italians as the Bourbons or the Asburgo-Este

so papal states is the real rome right 😂

eyes in ohio

A MIRACLE was the real cause behind the unification

Italy is essentially: What would happen if someone put Germans and Greeks in a single country

There’s many inaccuracies and honestly dumb pointless simplifications. The notion of Italians goes back to Dante, who mentions Italians in his poems…

It would be nice if Italy and Germany hadn't united and if the other Empires were broken up into smaller states.

Common Tate w

Horrible video, in the first minute of which you have already made 2 outrageously ignorant claims about pre unification Italy which prove your complete misunderstanding of anything related to Italy and its history. For one that Italy was never a unified country before 1871 which is utterly false. Italy was first obviously united by the Roman Republic and later Empire but even after that there were many Germanic Kingdoms which controlled over half of the peninsula which claimed the name of "Kingdom of Italy" and even still after this during the Napoleonic Wars Italy had been reorganized once more into a "Kingdom of Italy" so to say Italy had "never been united" is a falsehood. Secondly you say that Italians had never had a sense of unity that for all of history Italians viewed themselves not as one people but multiple and this is completely false. Amongst the greatest Italian writers, and philosophers there is a shared idea of Italians being one people which must unite against the foreign hordes, Dante Alighieri referred to all Italians as Latini (Latins) sharing the same identity, Niccolò Machiavelli said that Italy must "free herself from barbarians" and hoped that Cesare Borgia would take power and unite Italy, Petrarch Said "ancient valour in Italian hearts is not yet dead" in Italia Mia, the first duke of Milan Gian Galeazzo Visconti aimed to unite Italy in the middle ages before ultimately being poisoned, the Italic Leage which gained defacto independence for Italy from the HRE after defeating Barbarossa in the battle of Legnano, and finally in the 1700s Gian Rinaldo Carli wrote "Della Patria degli Italiani" in which a stranger entered a café in Milan and puzzled its occupants by saying that he was neither a foreigner nor a Milanese. "'Then what are you?' they asked. 'I am an Italian,' he explained." which reflects the feeling of national unity in Italy.

I’m surprised Spain, Portugal, and Italy never united. They are very similar cultures. Obviously variations exist among different communities but overall very similar.

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People seem to forget that it was the gold from the California gold rush that funded this unification of Italy.