In particular, the chorus of the Hebrew slaves (known as "Va, pensiero") from the third act of the opera Nabucco was intended to be an anthem for Italian patriots, who were seeking to unify their country and free it from foreign control in the years up to 1861 (the chorus's theme of exiles singing about their homeland, and its lines such as O mia patria, si bella e perduta "O my country, so lovely and so lost" were thought to have resonated with many Italians). This arrangement created such disturbances in Turin that the king was forced to leave that city hastily for his new capital. Why was Italian unification difficult to achieve? But Italy did not receive other territories promised by the Treaty of London, so this outcome was denounced as a "Mutilated victory". Reviews of the historical facts concerning Italian unification's successes and failures continue to be undertaken by domestic and foreign academic authors, including Denis Mack Smith, Christopher Duggan, and Lucy Riall. The moral effect was enormous throughout Italy, the action of the authorities was universally condemned, and the martyrdom of the Bandiera brothers bore fruit in the subsequent revolutions.[40]. [31], Many of the key intellectual and political leaders operated from exile; most Risorgimento patriots lived and published their work abroad after successive failed revolutions. Unification was achieved entirely in terms of Piedmont's interests. He escaped to South America, though, spending fourteen years in exile, taking part in several wars, and learning the art of guerrilla warfare before his return to Italy in 1848. If he let Garibaldi have his way, Garibaldi would likely end the temporal sovereignty of the Pope and make Rome the capital of Italy. regional differences, disputes between the Church and the state, and opposition to a conservative government; the nation also had to deal with social unrest, urbanization, and rapid population growth emigration or movement away from their homeland anarchists Manenti, Luca G., "Italian Freemasonry from the Eighteenth Century to Unification. Risorgimento was also represented by works not necessarily linked to Neoclassicismas in the case of Giovanni Fattori who was one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli and who soon became a leading Italian plein-airist, painting landscapes, rural scenes, and military life during the Italian unification.[107].