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Italy was founded by Giuseppe Mazzini
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Victor Emmanuel II helped pass the movement to Sardinia.
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Mazzini helped set up a revolitionary republic in Rome, but was toppled by the French.
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Count Camillo Cavour was selected by Victor Emmanuel
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Sardinia, Britain and France teamed up to fight Russia.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi gathered one thousand "red-shirt" volunteers to capture Sicily
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France withdraws troops from Rome after the Franco-Prussian War
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Industires sprouted up in northern Italy.
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Italy is now much better off than it was in the beginning of the 1800s.