GARIBALDI’S GAMBIT
“DID CAVOUR REALLY BELIEVE GARIBALDI’S SOUTHERN ADVENTURE WOULD SUCCEED, OR WAS HE HOPING TO SEND THE TROUBLESOME SOLDIER OF FORTUNE TO HIS DEMISE?”
The Risorgimento, Italy’s decades-long journey toward unification, was marked by three wars for independence and a new beginning after centuries of foreign domination. By early 1860, the Treaty of Turin had exacted a price for continuing French support in Piedmont’s effort to unify the Italian state. On 24 March, the Duchy of Savoy and
