Moderate Party (Italy)
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Moderate Party
Partito Moderato |
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| Leaders |
Vincenzo Gioberti, Massimo d'Azeglio, Cesare Balbo, Camillo Benso di Cavour |
| Founded | 1848 |
| Dissolved | 1861 |
| Succeeded by |
Historical Right, Historical Left |
| Headquarters | Turin, Piedmont-Sardinia |
| Ideology |
Italian nationalism Liberal nationalism Market liberalism Modernization Federalism (minority) |
The Moderate Party (Italian: Partito Moderato), collectively called Moderates (Italian: Moderati), was an Italian political group, active during the Risorgimento (1815–1861). The Moderates were never a formal party, only a totality of moderate patriots from politics, literature and philosophy.
Since the Congress of Vienna, inside the Italian Peninsula was diffused a reformist and Romantic movent, inspired from Jacobonism and Bonapartism and explosed in the revolutions of 1820 against the reactionary Congress System. Many patriots, soldiers and intellectuals who took part to the revolutions were definited "moderates". The Moderates, with time, demarcated themselves from radical and republican organizations like Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy, Carboneria and others. The moderates and radicals disputed mainly for the methods to unified Italy: the Moderates supported secret pacts and strategic alliances between the patriotic movement and the other European powers, whereas the Mazzini's supportes called a popular revolution to establish a democratic Republic. After the failure of the Italian Revolutions of 1848, attempted by Mazzinians and republicans, the republican ideas declined for the Moderates' agenda. During this time, several politicians of other Italian states are members of the group: in the Kingdom of Sardinia, the leaders were Massimo d'Azeglio and Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, representing the parliamentary Right, and Urbano Rattazzi, representing the Left; in the Papal States the reform movement was headed by Terenzio della Rovere and Pellegrino Rossi, the last murdered by a republican plot in 1848; in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies prominent moderates were brothers Bertrando and Silvio Spaventa. When the Kingdom of Italy was founded in 1861, the moderates merged in the Historical Right and Left, the two Piedmontese parliamentary group that monopolized the politics of the new Italian state for almost half-century.
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