Pre-unification Italian federalism offered a rival vision to unitary statehood

Evidence

There were various federalist tendencies in pre-Risorgimento Italy, in opposition to the unitary conception of the future Italian state held on the one hand by Mazzini and Garibaldi, and on the other by Cavour and the Piedmont monarchy. These tendencies ranged from the neo-Guelph federalism of Gioberti and the moderate liberal federalism of Balbo and d’Azeglio (see foregoing notes) to the radical liberal federalism of Cattaneo (see note 112 on p. 112 ) and the democratic-republican federalism of Ferrari (see note 23 on p. 65 ). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1877

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Pre-Risorgimento Italian federalists opposed rival unitary state visions. (similarity 0.86)
• Italian unification posed a national question only in partial aspects, not fully (similarity 0.81)
• The Risorgimento proved Neo-Guelph papal federation illusory (similarity 0.78)