Il patto nazionale. Il movimento unitario napoletano tra il 1860 e il 1864

Autore: Carmine Pinto
In: Meridiana. 95, 2019
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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss the role of liberal and unified southern political groups in the key passages of the conflict fought in the South during the final crisis of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the National Unification: the national revolution of 1860, the Bourbon insurrection of the 1861, the crisis of 1862, and the Italian counteroffensive of 1863. The aim is to understand how they interpreted and managed the encounter between the ancient southern civil conflict and national unification. The role of southern political groups was central in deciding the passage of the South into the new state. The Neapolitan groups welded their conceptual tools and their visions of southern history, within the general action of Italian nationalism. Moreover, they always managed to maintain the support of the elites and provincial groups that had joined the unification, even in the most complicated moments of the southern crisis. Finally, precisely because of the dramatic experience of the long conflict against the Bourbon regime, they were compacted in the decisive moments, making their national pact a decisive component of unification in the South. Keywords: Civil War; National Revolution; Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; Italian Unification