ABSTRACT
Cavour returned from Paris determined to take advantage of the anti-Austrian, pro-Italian sentiments of Napoleon III to reopen the Piedmontese conflict with the Habsburgs and wage a Second War of National Liberation. The credo of the new organization subordinated the issue of eventual political formulation to the more pressing need for independence, and supported the House of Savoy so long as it worked on behalf of Italy. Garibaldi's adherence to the party proved crucial for its success in working in tandem with the Piedmontese to undermine the established order in the peninsula. The two conspirators had a lengthy discussion concerning the subsequent reorganization of Italy, the details of which Cavour spared his monarch. The gist of their compromise called for the formation of four states that would form an Italian Confederation, similar to the German Bund. The French army would be commanded by Napoleon personally, the Italian army by King Vittorio Emanuele.
