Learn about the unification of Italy through a timeline of events. See when Italy was founded, who unified the country and what the goal of young... Learn how Italy was unified under one rule after centuries of division and foreign domination. Explore the roles of Napoleon, Mazzini, Cavour and Garibaldi in the Risorgimento. Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence") was the political and social movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into the single nation of Italy . The northern half of Italy was under the control of the Holy Roman Empire (a German-speaking Empire) beginning in the 8th century while the central and the southern half were intermittently governed between the Kingdom of Naples, Kingdom of Sicily and the Papal States.
