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Two brothers telling the story of the Italian Unification, 1790-1870. Our story will start with a quick recap of Italian history from Roman times to 1790, then we'll slow down and examine th...
We've come to the end of the series - this will be the last episode of our story. I'd like to spend this episode addressing some of the big...
In this penultimate episode we'll cover the period from 1861 to 1871 and reach the end of our story. Italy started as a collection of small...
We're closing in on the end of the story of the Italian unification. Through both force of arms and cunning, Piedmont has conquered almost a...
A brief update on the podcast delays.
1860 was a bad year to be a cartographer - or maybe a good year, depending on how you look at it. In 1859 there had been seven states in Ita...
Ever since the fall of the Roman Republic to the French army in 1849, we've focused pretty exclusively on events in Northern Italy, because...
In the space of a single year, Italy will change forever, emerging from the Second War of Italian Unification with an entirely new political...
It's the beginning of 1859, and we're at a pivotal point in the story. While it would be an exaggeration to say that the entire Italian Unif...
A new election in Piedmont will threaten to unseat Cavour, who will only survive through cunning, ruthlessness, and good old fashioned cheat...
In this episode we're going to catch back up with both of our revolutionary friends Mazzini and Garibaldi. We'll start with Mazzini and the...
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The title of this episode, "The Eagle and the Bee", is a reference to the symbols of the House of Habsburg, the ruling house of Austria, and...
Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power is one of the events that puts the 1790 in our "1790 to 1870" tagline. For almost 20 years Napoleon was d...
In this episode we'll continue the story of Piedmont's involvement in the Crimean war, and Cavour's role in the peace talks that followed. A...
In this episode we're going to tell the first half of the story of Piedmont's involvement in the Crimean War, and Cavour's growing dominance...
We'll open this episode with a discussion of why Piedmont had no competition - what had happened to the rest of Italy that Piedmont, backwar...
In this episode we'll meet Piedmont's new king, and see Piedmont try to regain its footing as it deals with its first constitutional crisis,...
We left off with Garibaldi leading his men out of the doomed city to continue the fight elsewhere. In this episode we'll follow our intrepid...
Adam is back with the final stages of the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe.
The poetic, heroic, and tragic defense was burned indelibly into the memory and imagination of Italian patriots, for whom the city of Rome w...
This episode will focus on two different areas. First, we're going to jump back to Piedmont. Frightened by the success of the republicans in...
The creation and heroic defense of a new Roman Republic is one of the defining episodes in the story of the Italian unification. It's an epi...
Revolutions break out in Italy in earnest when Milan rises up against Austria. The Piedmontese declare war on Austria, ostensibly in a war o...
In this episode we're going to cover the first three months of 1848 in Italy. Sicily will kick off the year with a revolution, followed by a...
An interview with Doug Cantelmo, Professor of Urban Development at St. John's University about urban development in late 19th century Italy.
Clearly, the 1840's were a troubled time in Italy. The decade had begun with increased demands from the business minded classes for economic...
Benjamin and Adam take a break from the story to answer questions sent in by listeners.
In the last episode we saw Europe undergo an economic crisis in the 1840's, as harvests failed, trade slumped, and urban unemployment explod...
Our story is now rapidly approaching an incredibly important series of events: the Revolutions of 1848. In a single year, a series of revolu...
Gearing up for the revolutions of 1848, we lay the groundwork by talking about liberalism, money, books, and opera in 19th century Italy. Th...
For this episode we're going to do something different. This episode is going to be divided into two parts. In the first half I am going to...
The final character we have to introduce is Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, usually just called Cavour. He was the Prime Minister of the Kin...
Giuseppe Garibaldi is, by a huge margin, the most famous person in the story of the Italian Unification. But, his fame goes beyond that. In...
As we've seen while moving through our story, Austria in the 18th and 19th centuries was heavily involved in Italian affairs, exerting stron...
Mazzini organized many revolutions in Italy, but because of his public notoriety was blamed for all of them, even those he had actively oppo...
In mid-March, 2014, Venetians overwhelmingly voted for secession from Italy in an unofficial, online referendum. Learn more about why this h...
The stars of the show are about to come on stage. There are three of them, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Count Cavour. They are...
In the early 1820's most of Italy was still ruled by the same men who had squared off against Napoleon - Grand Duke Ferdinand in Tuscany, Ki...
Where classicism had emphasized a cosmopolitan, international perspective, romanticism inspired nationalism and a search for identity. In It...
We cover the revolutions against the Kingdom of Piedmont and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1820-1821).
Episode 16 - The Restoration, is out! In this episode we're going to see what came after Napoleon, and how the victorious British, Prussians...
Sardinia and Sicily were never conquered by Napoleon, and so came out of the Napoleonic Wars with a distinctly different attitude from the r...
We're going to look at Napoleon's legacy in three broad steps. First, what were Napoleon's reforms, economic, political, and social, and wha...
For the last time in a while, we're going to be leaving Italy behind for this episode and focusing on events elsewhere in Europe. Specifical...
We're going to be looking at the Italian army under Napoleon in this episode. The Italian army took part in numerous conflicts, including Na...
Napoleon had used Italy's disunity to his advantage, allowing him to control most of Italy, either directly or indirectly, for a comparative...
Tw quick announcements: 1) Check out the new series I'm hosting, History Podcasters: Collage, where your favorite podcasters give their take...
It's 1799, and Italy is fractured, politically, socially, and economically. This isn't new - it’s been fractured for over a thousand years a...
Adam's back with the War of the 2nd Coalition. The war in Europe spreads as Napoleon invades Egypt. Russia enters the war against France and...
In Venice Bonus Episode 2 we explained how the 4th Crusade started. Now we follow it to its tragic conclusion, with the sack of Constantinop...