b. The Revolutions of 1848 - 49
As you have read on the previous page, despite the optimism of thinkers and writers such as Mazzini, no practical progress had been made towards ending foreign rule of the Italian peninsula and bringing about some type of unification. Mazzini went into exile, and the majority of Italians were unmoved by the idea of nationalism. However, in 1848, revolutions once again broke out in Italy and, unlike the earlier...