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Location: Deganwy Caernarfonshire United Kingdom

The Italian democratic movement refuses to acknowledge …

Years: 1860 - 1860
April

The Italian democratic movement refuses to acknowledge that the national revolution is in any way complete so long as parts of the peninsula remain under the old sovereigns.

Sicily, where autonomist opposition to the Bourbon government is endemic and extreme, is the most obvious place for a democratic revival.

A Mazzinian-inspired insurrection, the Gancia revolt, had broken out in Palermo on April 4, 1860, and spread throughout the island, but it had quickly been quelled.