Italian Civil War?

[Enigmajones]

Just after Italy unified there were some legitimate concerns over Garibaldi splitting the Kingdom between the Royalist North and the Republican South, but the death of Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour pretty much ended the possibility. So Im asking, what if Benso lived? Could Italy have gone into a civil war in the 1860's?

 

[lukedalton]

Just after Italy unified there were some legitimate concerns over Garibaldi splitting the Kingdom between the Royalist North and the Republican South, but the death of Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour pretty much ended the possibility. So Im asking, what if Benso lived? Could Italy have gone into a civil war in the 1860's?

No, Garibaldi was for an unified Italy and already declared that the Vittorio Emanuele was the only change for that; sure he would grouble and not accepted much that he was stopped before he can liberate Rome but he comply.
Regarding his feeling towards the Count of Cavour...well the two simply hate each other with a passion and never deny that, but they worked enough together for getting on the same target

 

[wolf_brother]

Just after Italy unified there were some legitimate concerns over Garibaldi splitting the Kingdom between the Royalist North and the Republican South, but the death of Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour pretty much ended the possibility. So Im asking, what if Benso lived? Could Italy have gone into a civil war in the 1860's?

Pretty emphatically no. At least not with this set up. Garibaldi was a dedicated nationalists and only part-time republican. Hell, he went into voluntary retirement even before unification was complete in order to 'hand the reigns,' so to speak, over to Victor Emmanuel. Besides, where would the republicans establish their own nation? Recently-conquered Naples or Sicily?

 

[Enigmajones]

Pretty emphatically no. At least not with this set up. Garibaldi was a dedicated nationalists and only part-time republican. Hell, he went into voluntary retirement even before unification was complete in order to 'hand the reigns,' so to speak, over to Victor Emmanuel. Besides, where would the republicans establish their own nation? Recently-conquered Naples or Sicily?

No, not that kind of a civil war, a civil war attempting to unify Italy as a Republic, and obviously achieve irredentist claims of a unified Greater Italy.

 

[wolf_brother]

No, not that kind of a civil war, a civil war attempting to unify Italy as a Republic, and obviously achieve irredentist claims of a unified Greater Italy.

Still ASB. Gairbaldi isn't going to lead any such republican effort, and the republican factions had already split over ideological differences by the 1860s.