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How far do you agree that it was Cavour's diplomacy rather that Garibaldi's ideas and actions which made the greater contribution to Italian Unification?
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Shantalie Hewavisenti How far do you agree that it was Cavour's diplomacy rather that Garibaldi's ideas and actions which made the greater contribution to Italian Unification? The historical view of Italian Unification like other revolutionary processes of the nineteenth century has become a mix of both exaggerated myth and fact. With hindsight historians can now detach themselves sufficiently from events to distinguish, objectively which figures in the Risorgimento allowed it to result in the United Kingdom of Italy in 1870. Any historical movement is a culmination of events and combination of different figures. Both Giuseppe Garibaldi and Count Camillo Benso di Cavour emerge as leading figures in the movement. Garibaldi is celebrated as a hero, a natural leader and military genius who inspired men to follow him to the death and he has become an admired figure in Italian History due to his inescapable charisma. On the other hand, Cavour is...
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