The Risorgimento proved Neo-Guelph papal federation illusory

Evidence

The movement’s ideals were definitively proved illusory when the Risorgimento created a national Italian state under the Piedmont monarchy, and when the Pope refused to come to terms with that state; most of its members in fact then rallied to the monarchy. It can be seen as a precursor of the Popular Party (see note 14 on p. 62 ) and hence ultimately of the Christian Democrat Party of today. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1875

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Relevant to how religious movements get absorbed into secular-national political projects — a pattern carrying into analyses of religious identity and the nation-state.

Related

• Neo-Guelphism offered a papal federation vision defeated by the Risorgimento monarchy (similarity 0.91)
• Neo-Guelphism sought an Italian federation under the Pope (similarity 0.82)
• Pre-Risorgimento Italian federalists opposed rival unitary state visions. (similarity 0.79)
• Pre-unification Italian federalism offered a rival vision to unitary statehood (similarity 0.78)