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and was identified with
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money-grubbing tax collectors coming down from the north.
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After the tide of the springtime of the people or,
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as somebody once called it, "The great illusion" of 1848,
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after that tide had passed,
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what you had is still lots of fervent hopes and dreams that
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Italy was going to be unified along liberal auspices.
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That is what happens, even though it's a monarchy,
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and unification comes
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because of basically the expansion of the state of Piedmont Sardinia,
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which was that most influenced by the French wave
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in the times of the French Revolution and of Napoleon,