What was the final step in Italy's Risorgimento?
History · Middle School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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The final step in Italy's Risorgimento, which means "Resurgence" and was the Italian unification movement, was the capture of Rome and its annexation into the Kingdom of Italy. This consequential event is also known as the Capture of Rome, and it took place on September 20, 1870. After a brief conflict, the Italian army breached Rome's walls at Porta Pia and took the city, ending the temporal power of the Papacy. The Pope at that time, Pius IX, retreated to the Vatican where he declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican, a situation that lasted until the Lateran Treaty of 1929.