How significant was Mazzini in the growth of opposition to autocratic and foreign rule in Italy in the years 1831–49? (30) Mazzini was a republican nationalist who had a significant effect in the growth of anti-autocratic feeling in Italy. He had radical aims for the future of Italy and he envisioned unification. He was the first leader to indoctrinate in the minds of Italians a vision of political unification. Mazzini created the Young Italy society after the 1831 revolutions.
Cavour then brought Napoleon III to his side with the cities of Nice and Savoy. Italian nationalism is linked back to 1797 when Napoleon took control of the Italian peninsula and created the puppet Kingdom of Italy. He joined smaller Italian city-states into larger units to make his rule more effective. He thought Austria was weakening as he created a united and powerful Italy. Giuseppe Garibaldi was able to harness the power of the mass, most especially the peasants.
He also wrote important literary works in his life, and his music dramas Die meistersinger von Nibelung, The Ring of The Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde were performed at last. Verdi is mainly a composer of Italian operas. He has composed 28 Italian Operas, and he has found a suitable librettist Francesco Maria Piave for Rigoletto, Macbeth, La traviata etc. Many of his great works are produced based on Shakespeare's plays, include Macbeth, Otello, Falstaff etc. His works Rigoletto and La traviata are derived from Victor Hugo's drama and Alexandre Duma's play.
The art form known as Opera had originated in Italy in the early sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, even though it put the squeeze on older traditions of medieval and Renaissance courtly entertainment. The word opera, meaning "work" in Italian, was first used in the modern musical and theatrical sense in 1639 and soon spread to the other European languages. The earliest operas were unassertive productions compared to other Renaissance forms of sung drama, but they soon became more extravagant and took on the remarkable staging of the earlier genre known as intermedio. The earliest operas, including Claudio Monteveredi’s Orpheus were performed in private theatres at the courts of nobility and royals. The first public opera house opened in Venice, Italy in 1637, and by the eighteenth century public doors began charging the public for admission into these opera houses.
Populist in that it seeks to activate "the people" as a whole against perceived oppressors or enemies and to create a nation of unity. The elitist approach treats as putting the people’s will on one select group, or most often one supreme leader called El Duce, from whom all power proceeds downward (www.spu.edu). The apogee of Fascism can be best described by the chronological analysis of the trends and objectives of Fascism through the period from the end of WWI to the end of WWII, when the two most recognized names were Italy’s Benito Mussolini and Germany’s Adolf Hitler (www.fordham.edu).
Caro Mio Ben Caro Mio Ben is an 18th century Italian Art Song and Arietta. Caro Mio Ben was composed by Giuseppe Giordani. He was a musician from Naples, an Italian city in that lies in the south. Giuseppe Giordani was a significant and famous Italian composer who was best known for his operas, oratorios, and sacred music to forever be remembered. Caro Mio Ben is an aria about lost love and missing that person intensely.
Britain and France also agreed to divide the responsibility for maintaining naval control of the Mediterranean, with the main British base located at Alexandria, Egypt. Italy was the wild card in the Mediterranean strategic equation at the outset of WWII. If the Italians remained neutral, British access to the vital sea lanes would remain almost assured. If Italy sided with Germany, the powerful Italian navy had the capability to close the Mediterranean. The navy's main base was at Taranto in southern Italy, and operations from there would be supported by Italian air force units flying from bases in Sicily and Sardinia.
Italian Unification as a result of Foreign Aids The Italian Unification was a result of foreign aids from France, Prussia, Britain and also Russia by helping to gain Italian states and by helping indirectly. Firstly, the Italian Unification was a result of foreign aids from France because France wanted to gain prestige. To do this, France helped gain Lombardy and Duchies of Italy. When France saw the strength of the Piedmontese army in the Crimean war 1854, France agreed to help Piedmont against Austria. For this agreement, both countries signed the Pact of Plombieres in 1858 where if Austria attacked Piedmont, France will send 200,000 troops to help.
After graduation, Burckhardt taught Art History and it was while he was a professor that he began to publish. It was in his third book, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, that Burckhardt wrote about the state as a work of art. The book was written as an essay merging the political and cultural aspects of the Renaissance into his book. Burckhardt felt that three elements- the state, culture and religion- were needed to accurately portray history. The intent of this paper is to demonstrate that Burckhardt was a Romantic Historian.
Italian Unification Outline Intro- Italy was unified by Piedmont in 1870. Foreign intervention played a somewhat moderate role in Italian Unification, it is evident that the Unification of Italy was dependent on several main factors; the spread of nationalism by Mazzini and Carbonari, the works of Cavour and Garibaldi, the 1848 revolution and the support of other countries. Topic 1- Nationalism Mazzini and Cabonari were the main causes in the spread of Nationalism in Italy. Carbonari was a secret society that organized revolutions against Austrian rule; from 1820-1830 revolutions started in Italy. Although the results were ineffective it was effective in the sense of spreading Nationalism.