Ten Minute History - The Unification of Italy (Short Documentary) 

My grandfather's great grandfather fought for Garibaldi in the 1860s and we still have his uniform with us.

I imagine a confused France opening his mailbox: "But... i did not order a Venice"

The French should have given Venice to the Pope to further perpetuate the trollfest.

Fun fact: the color magenta is named after the Battle of Magenta, as the dye was developed around that time.

*Austria losses war against Prussia and Italy* Italy: so yeah mate can I get Venice now ? Austria: I have a better idea *Gives Venice to France*

*How many independence wars do you want?* Italy: *Yes.*

Italian here: many times my foreign friends ask me why Corsica was never part of Italy, or why Italy never ever tried to recover the island. That's an interesting question, and I think that some people may have the same doubt after watching this very well made video. There are three main reasons: first, corsica was never part of Italy, it was part of the Republic of Genoa, wich in the end of 18th century decided to sell it legally to France, since maintaining genovese presence on the island and fighting off bandits and smugglers was too costly for the Republic. Second,, France owned corsica, and the French were our main allies against the Austrians during the "Guerre di Indipendenza" (indipendence wars) and going against our all lies would have been a very poor decision. Last but not least, despite its size, and the strategic importance of being an island in the middle of the Mediterranean, corsica doesn't really have much to offer. It's very very very scarcely populated (my home city, Bologna, has more inhabitants than all of corsica) no industries, no agriculture (inner corsica is CRAZILY mountainous) and the fact of being an island made it even more difficult and expensive to govern and control it, especially if you're a newly formed state like Italy, with many more problems to think about (peasants revolting against newly introduced taxes, bandits roaming the countryside, inflation, debt, and... Mafia of course) Corsica may not be an economic powerhouse, but the landscapes and the beaches are amazing! GG to France for making so many parks, national reservations and protected beaches in the island. It's really an amazing place to visit as a tourist, everyone should travel there once in their life! Ciao from Italia.

Of course an Italian secret society would be called carbonari...

"Italy performed poorly but Prussia performed well." aka Foreshadowing

The difficulty with unification ran deeper than political rivalries. Language and culture were also divisive factors. Hell, Piedmontese is more closely related to Catalan and French than it is to Tuscan or Sicilian. And then there's Sardinia, which is its own damned thing... Honestly, given the diversity that characterizes the peninsula, the fact that it ever unified - and so cohesively at that - has always amazed me.

The Battle of Solferino was also the last major battle in world history where all the armies were under the personal command of their monarchs! and

"beloved across the continent and North America" What Garibaldi fought in the War of Farrapos in Brazil where he met Anita his wife and comrade in arms. The Garibaldis are to this day historical figures of Brazilian history, and Giuseppe Garibaldi is romanticized as " the hero of two worlds"

It's funny how Savoy, which started sardinia-piedmont and soon the Kingdom of Italy, wouldn't actually be part of Italy.

"It went terribly" should be your catchphrase

"it's free real estate"

"And by ambitious i mean aggresive" (Your mother) THAT'S GOLD!

When the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861 the first Capitol city was *Turin*, and not Florence, as stated here 07:55, which became the second capitol city in 1865.

"Your mother"

Garibaldi was extremely popular in the US. There's even a small mill town in the US on the Oregon coast named after Garibaldi. The post master and primary land owner of the town declared the name in celebration of Garibaldi unifying Italy.

I have this feeling that if the video didn't stop the narrator would just keep going straight through the modern times and then start rapidly predicting the future with a wry sense of humour

I'm early, let me think of a joke: Austrians maintaining stability across the empire

Hi everyone, sorry about the delay for this episode. Back on schedule now. Next episode is 'The Dutch Revolt and the 80 Years' War'. If there's any graphical issues let me know since Final Cut has been a pain recently. Thanks for watching.

Napoleon honestly set the stage for so much conflict over the century that culminated into the Great War. Geez. *Thud*.

Sicily's history in a nutshell: get invaded by carthage, get invaded by romans, get invaded by byzantine greeks, get invaded by moors, get invaded by normans, get invaded by aragonese, get invaded by piedmontese, get invaded by the allies in WW2.

Its insane the amount of this videos that start with Napoleon. The man really change history.

Never stop making these.

Unify Italy: *check* Dominate the continent: _Oof_

5:43 *City of Nice, given to France, was birthplace of Giuzeppe Garibaldi. So Garibaldi was strongly against French support.*

7:39 Obbedisco That was the word said by Garibaldi when the king told him to stop, litterally meaning "I obey"

Who else just love the " Soon " cards?

This episode was SO GOOD. I'm a tour guide in Nice so this will be really helpful for explaining to visitors.

I remember that Cavour basically tricked the French to go to war with Austria because he signed a military defense pact which was achieved thanks to Virginia Oldoini, countess Castiglione, "persuading" (read: seducing) Napoleon III. Therefore France would have intervened only in the case of Austria's attack. After that, Cavour made the army march and train alongside the Austrian border which enraged the Austrians who gave him an ultimatum to demobilize which he refused. Thus Austria attacked and the French were dragged into the war to fight for us.

The pope: stop taking my land, no heaven for your sins Republicans soldiers: tonight we dine in hell

I like your channel. You do good research, you're funny and you give your sources for further reading. You also ask us for our support in a subtle way, which is appreciated.

"Like some Discount Holy Roman Empire"! Love it! LOL

The Bandits roaming the south of Italy still exist. They just renamed themselves to the Mafia.

"Austria then lost Venice..." "To France."

Great video! There's a mistake thou, as in 1861 the capital was still in Turin. It would change to Florence only in 1864, before finally moving to Rome in 1871.

Love a fresh simple history straight after a gym sesh.

When you fight so hard it leads to the creation of the *fucking Red Cross*

Man I just love that picture of him using the “soon” it just gets every time

One thing that is not stated in this video is that the concept of an united Italy precedes the 1800 by a LOT. A conspicuous amount of intellectuals, poets, novelists and artists dreamed about the unity of the peninsula well before the Renaissance. Dante Alighieri was one of them and he was born in the mid 1200, late Middle-age! Although, these ideas where shared only between the literate classes and they took centuries to reach the regular folks.

2x speed. I'll get in in 5 minutes. Life hacks.

Another curiosity: the first world war, for us Italian, is called also the "fourth war of independence" because in that war we make free the " trentino" and "friuli-veneziagiulia", but don't end the liberation... Well... that is another story

A fact: Giuseppe Garibaldi fought in the Revolução Farroupilha in southern Brazil for the proclamation of the República Riograndense against the monarchy at the time.

At least hating the Austrians was something the Italian states could Agee on.

So 1870 was the year of unifications? Italy, Germany, USA (re-integration of Georgia, the last confederate state)... who else?

I studied this and German Unification as part of my history course in Lower Sixth (age 16-17).

“Italy preformed poorly” that is a summary of every Italian military engagement after unification.

This is one of those channels where I don’t understand why they don’t have more subscribers

I love the fact that garibaldi ran to brazil and joined a revolution in my city

Finally, some history of my country!

1. Nice and Savoy were not handed to France in 1859 as France had pulled out of the war just after Solferino leaving Veneto in Austrian hands. Instead, France secured Nice and Savoy a year later in exchange for accepting Upper Italy's annexation of Emilia, Romagna, and Tuscany. 2. In 1861 the capital city remained Turin, and moved to Florence only in 1865. The move was to make the capital more secure against French invasion and to reassure France and Austria that Italy had given up ambitions of annexing Rome, which it hadn't 3. The mission of Garibaldi's one thousand to Sicily happened in 1860, just after the annexation of Emilia, Romagna, and Tuscany, and not in 1859 when the Franco-Sardinians defeated Austria

I'm a long time student of history and I just love your videos! Your ten minute presentations are amazingly complete for such a short time. You are filling in the gaps in my learning. Your illustrations are great and the little signs that the little men carry are absolutely inspirational and quite funny! Please keep up the wonderful work!

"Like some discount Holy Roman Empire" dude the HRE was itself a discount Holy, discount Roman, discount Empire

No one: The Pope: *nO hEaVen fOr yOu*

You are simply and utterly wonderful. Every time I watch one of your videos I feel better.

Another masterpiece.

I love how perfect the length of your videos are

The characters at the end waving goodbye are so adorable

7:59 Victor Emmanuel: We have made Italy. Cavour: Now we must make Italians. Kinky.

3:56. “Louis I’m not the emperor yet Napoleon”

I sometimes Think that Germany's history as a national State is pretty Short because unficiation is not that far back, but I almost always forget that Italy is only a bit older as well! I don't know if there are much Differences between the former Italian states until this day like in Germany, but that shared fate definetly something that connects the two people by a special Feeling. -Greetings from Germany

"Soon" gets me every single time

Austria used to control almost all of Italy, but now they don't even have South Tyrol.

8:58 "Italy performed poorly but ____ performed well" sums up Italy's entire existence

Any Victoria 2 players ?

We still need Savoy, Istria, Nice, Corsica, Malta, North Tirol, and some other little stuff

France just giving Venice to Italy sounds like something straight out of eu4

I still find it weird how Italy managed to unify even tho it performed terrible in every war

the kingdom of italy was founded on my birthday :)

I am the only one that felt sad when Pope appeared with the "You Promised" card? And I am not even Catholic. It just looked so sad

Turin was the first capital of Italy

Brilliant! I remember Cavour, our secondary school history teacher was obsessed with him!

I can’t believe I’m only pointing this out now, but then Kingdom of Italy ended in 1946, not 1945

I'm watching this one video multiple times, to first build a strong foundational understanding of the complex forces and issues involved here. And THEN I'll be ready to slog through a lengthy, detailed book. Thanks! (And now, I'm off to go look for a video from you on Greece - that country's modern history still flummoxes me...!)

ur animation and vids is always awesome

Excellent job

You should have called Louie, I’m not the emperor yet, Napoleon, Louie, I’m despitly trying to live up to my uncles reputation, Napoleon

Much more complex than I had ever considered, but it makes sense. Great video

Già l’Aquila d’Austria le penne ha perdute Il sangue d’Italia, il sangue polacco Bevé col cossaco ma il cor le bruciò

1851 Guiseppe Garibaldi anchored his boat in Viña Del Mar, Chile. Around that time my Italian great great great grandfather was left an orphan because his mother died in childbirth after arriving in Chile and the young father, heartbroken, gave up his child to the Astete family and he went back on a boat to somewhere else. Our true last name is Cotal, but ive never found any history about this last name?

wow! So austria was the only obstacle in forming both a united italy and a united germany

Your subtitles are normally great, but they're all messed up in this episode. Love the content! 😻

My understanding of history is better than 90% of the human population having watched a good chunk of his videos.

Garibaldi is quite well known in Argentina too and many streets, squares and schools has been named after him.

I swear the first capital was Turin the Florence for 9 years the Rome

Watching these videos makes me realise just how much Europeans loved going to war with each other.

This video was very helpful for my class!

To show how much of a celebrity Garibaldi was, my great great grandfather in the northern parts of Iceland was named Garibaldi

Even more on Italy, please. And where are the book references? Your description doesn’t mention them yet.

C: Garibaldi, don't invade Naples Giuseppe "you're not the boss of me" Garibaldi: how 'bout I do anyway?

Louis "I'm not the emperor yet" Napoleon lmao.

This is good. thanks for making such awesome content

5:00 “Able to pursue a more ambitious foreign policy” *“Change is on the way.”* “…and by ambitious, I mean aggressive.” *“Your mother.”*

Is it me or was Europe of the past 500 years up to 1945 similar to the Middle East today, just wars wars wars.

Another good book on this time period is The Pope Who Would Be King by David Kertzler. It covers the Papal States and Pius IX's attempts to hold onto power.

5:23 History matters says n word 😳

Your maps are the most satisfying ever

"Soon" Best sign ever.