ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book describes the Wars of Italian Liberation, including the first war of 1848-49, the second of 1859-60, the third of 1866, and the campaign for Rome of 1870 were waged by the moderate and monarchist Piedmontese party on the one hand, and the republicans and democrats of the Party of Action, on the other. The tone of the wars was set during the course of the First War of Italian Liberation, when Carlo Alberto's Piedmont chose as its slogan, 'Italia fara da se', predicting that the Italians would be able to liberate the peninsula without foreign assistance. During the course of this conflict, the conservative Savoyard monarchy seemed more bent on Piedmontese expansion than Italian union, revealing a distrust of the other Italian states as well as the rural masses.
