Mediaeval and modern history . Pope was reinstated inhis authority. This interference by theFrench in Italian affairs was promptedby their jealousy of Austria and thedesire of Louis Napoleon to win thegood will of the Catholic clergy inFrance. Thus through the interven-tion of foreigners was the third Italian revolution brought to Victor Emmanuel II, Count Cavour, and Garibaldi. —Wehave just noticed the accession to the Sardinian throne of VictorEmmanuel II as a constitutional ruler, — the only one remainingin Italy. Austria had tried to get him to repeal the constitutionhis father
Mediaeval and modern history . Pope was reinstated inhis authority. This interference by theFrench in Italian affairs was promptedby their jealousy of Austria and thedesire of Louis Napoleon to win thegood will of the Catholic clergy inFrance. Thus through the interven-tion of foreigners was the third Italian revolution brought to Victor Emmanuel II, Count Cavour, and Garibaldi. —Wehave just noticed the accession to the Sardinian throne of VictorEmmanuel II as a constitutional ruler, — the only one remainingin Italy. Austria had tried to get him to repeal the constitutionhis father had granted, but he had resolutely refused to do him it was that the hopes of the Italian patriots now were these hopes to be disappointed. Victor P^mmanuelwas the destined liberator of Italy, or perhaps it would be morecorrect to say that his was the name in which the achievementwas to be effected by the wise policy of his great minister CountCavour and the reckless daring of the national hero Fig. 102, — Victor Emman-uel II. (From an engraving) SARDINIA IN THE CRIMEAN WAR 625 Count Cavour was the Bismarck of Italy, — one of those greatmen who during this formative period in the life of the Europeanpeoples have earned the title of Nation Makers. He was lackingin oratorical and poetic gifts. I cannot make a sonnet, he said,but I can make Italy,—an utterance suggested doubtlessby that of the Athenian statesman (Themistocles) who boastedthat though he knew nothing ofmusic and song, he did know how ofa mean city to make a great was the real maker of modernItaly. Garibaldi, the hero of the redshirt, the knight-errant of Italian in-dependence, was a most remarkablecharacter. Though yet barely pastmiddle life, he had led a career singu-larly crowded with varied experiencesand romantic adventures. Because ofhis violent republicanism he hadalready been twice exiled from Italy. 692. Sardinia in the Crimean War.— In 1855, in pursuance
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