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Count Cavour: The Architect of Italian Unification
While Garibaldi's Red Shirts captured imaginations, it was Count Camillo Benso di Cavour who masterminded Italian unification from the diplomatic backrooms of Europe. This episode unpacks Cavour's realpolitik: his decision to join the Crimean War for a seat at the Congress of Paris, the secret Plombières agreement with Napoleon III that traded Savoy and Nice for French military support, and the delicate political chess game that balanced the monarchy with revolutionary forces like Garibaldi. We explore Cavour's modernization of the Sardinian economy, his role in the 1859…
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