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the political principles of the Carbonari, or (in extended use) of similar revolutionists.
The movement which led to the unification of Italy as an independent state with its capital at Rome in 1870.
In Italy, a system of shifting political alliances, or of changes of allegiance, to form a stable administration or a workable policy. Cf. opportunism…