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1914. Part 1 of 2. The biography of Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the man who forged the Kingdom of Italy, designed the constitutional structure of the unitary state and served as its first prime minister. Contents: Childhood and Youth; Elements, Intellectual and Moral; A Career-but Second-Best; The Year of Revolution; Saving Liberty in Piedmont; The Renascence of Piedmont; The Condition of Austrianized Italy; Reaction at Rome and Naples; The First Year of the Premiership; The Reds; The Blacks; The Crimean War; The Crisis with the Clericals; The Congress of Paris; Piedmont the National Leader; Legitimizing the Revolution; Mazzini's Countermines; Unredeemed Italy; Winning the Grand Alliance-Orsini-Plombieres; Preparing for War; and Cavour Against Europe. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417902051.