d. Garibaldi and unification after 1860
In May 1860 a new phase in Italian unification began when Giuseppe Garibaldi took over Sicily and Naples. As you have read on the previous page, Cavour had been successful in uniting northern and central Italy - apart from Venetia - and he would have been happy to stop at this stage of unification. However Garibaldi, like other Italian nationalists, dreamed of uniting the whole peninsula. That he managed to conquer...