Question

Which statement describes the role played by Count di Cavour in the fight for Italian unification?

a. He was a cunning prime minister who played a major role in the unification of Italy.
b. He was the fiery ruler of Sardinia who became king of united Italy and declared Rome its capital.
c. He was a nationalist who fought for Italian unity and freedom and founded Young Italy.
d. He organized the Redshirts and helped unite the Italian peninsula into one nation.

Answer 1

Choice "A" is correct. Camillo Cavour was the Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia. King Victor Emmanuel III was the king of Sardinia. Giuseppe Mazini was the founder of Young Italy. Giuseppe Garibaldi organized the Red Shirts.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A. Count di Cavour was a cunning prime minister who played a major role in the unification of Italy.

He was minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1850 to 1852, president of the Council of Ministers from 1852 to 1859 and from 1860 to 1861. In the same 1861, with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, he became the first president of the Council of Ministers of the new State and died in that post.

Although he did not have a preordained plan of national unity, he succeeded in managing political events (riots in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, in the duchies of Modena and Parma and in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) which together with the Enterprise of the Thousand led to the formation of the Kingdom of Italy.