The Making of Germany and Italy

Study the image given above and answer the following:

Identify the attributes of Veit’s Germania and interpret the symbolic meaning of the painting

The caricature depicts, Garibaldi helping King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia-Piedmont to pull on the boot named ‘Italy’.

What is the artist trying to portray through this Caricature? 

The map shows the year in which different regions became a part of Unified Italy. Answer the following questions based on the Map given above: 

(a) Which was the first region to become a part of unified Italy?
(b) Which was the last region to join?
(c) In which year did the largest number of states join?

Look at the given image and answer the following question.

Do you think that the people living in any of these regions thought of themselves as Italians?

Describe the caricature. How does it represent the relationship between Bismarck and the elected deputies of Parliament?

What interpretation of democratic processes is the artist trying to convey?

How was the history of nationalism in Britain is unlike the rest of Europe?

Write a note on Count Camillo de Cavour.