Italy Knowledge Gaps Flashcards
The 1830-31 revolutions failed in part because of lack of foreign support. Britain and France objected to what but did not want to challenge Austria over it?
the Troppau Protocol
After the 1830-31 revolutions, until when was there an Austrian garrison in Bologna?
1838
What qualities did Misely and Menotti have that meant that the revolutions did not have popular support?
Misely was an academic and Meotti was a prosperous businessman
Where were the Adelfi based?
Geneva, not Italy
When did the Adelfi rename themselves to the “society of the sublime perfect masters”?
1818
Though the Adelfi were originally anti-French, what did the goal change into?
anti-Austrian society that wanted democratic rule
Who led the Adelfi?
Filippo Buonarroti
How any silk workers in Lombardy by 1840?
70 000
By what percent did GDP rise by in Northern and Central Italy a year between which two dates?
Between 1830 and 1860, GDP rose by only 0.5% each year
What was the growth in the Italian population?
17.8 million in 1800 to over 24 million in 1850
In 1837, how many people died of Cholera in Palermo?
27 000
In 1836 65 000 people died of Cholera in sicily. what proportion of its population was this?
1/10
Who did Pius IX appoint to his secretary of state ?
liberal Cardinal Gizzi
What encouraged Liberals in northern Italy during the 1848 revolutions?
Events in Switzerland in 1847 where consitutional, liberal forced defeated the conservative alliance known as the Sonderbund
Who introduced limited reforms that encouraged Liberals to demand a constitution?
Leopardi II
When did the Pope appoint Pelligrino Rossi as PM?
September 1848
what happened to Pelligrino rossi?
murdered by a mob on 15th November
When did the Pope flee Rome?
24th november 1848
What was the trigger cause of Pius Fleeing rome?
The murder of Pelligrino Rossi on 24th November 1848
the resignation of Metternich as foreign minster in March 1848 led to a more pragmatic Austrian foreign policy direction under who?
Prince Felix Schwazenberg
who pressed VEII to keep the statuto?
D’Azeglio
How did Cavour describe the church?
The chief cause of the misfortunes of Italy
From what was Austria excluded?
Zollverein
In 1848, who replaced the liberal secretary of state Cardinal Gizzi?
Cardinal Gracamo Antonelli