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Repository	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Ref No	RCS/SJW/MUS/3/38
Title	Public Notice from Cardinal Massimo, Apostolic Legate of Ravenna
Date	29 January 1845
Level	Item
Description	Accompanying explanation: 'At the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Italy was divided up again into seven states and the Papal States were returned to the Pope due to the efforts of Cardinal Consalvi. Each of the Papal States were administered by a Cardinal legate. Although some of the commercial and financial innovations of the French were retained and Consalvi himself pushed for lay councils, the legislative system was abolished and an absolutist theocratic government resumed its sway. It was bound to meet resistance of the new bourgeoisie who looked forward to liberal and democratic government and a unified Italy mostly without prejudice to their faith. There were a number of uprisings in the period up to 1848. In the Papal States, prompted by Fabrizi, two brothers and 80 men revolted in Savigno in 1843. This was broken up, but Ribotty an officer in exile led a second group to capture three cardinals at Imola without success. In total 116 people were tried in the conspiracies with 20 sentenced to death though 13 were reprieved by the Pope. From this time onward uprisings were to occure intermittently until the Papal States and Rome itself were both finally incorporated into the Italian state in 1871. This public notice refers to the recent uprising and the disciplinary measures being imposed.'

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