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The four men responsible for Italian reunification were Giuseppi Mazzini (ideology), Guiseppi Garibaldi (military), Victor Emmanuel (king), and Count Camillo Cavour (prime minister). [Furtado: 1001 Days] "In Italy the prevalence of illuminism and Masonry made the Revolution immensely popular among the educated, but local Jacobinism was probably powerful only in the kingdom of Naples, where it captured virtually all the enlightened (i.e. anticlerical) middle class and a part of the gentry, and was well organized in the secret lodges and societies which flourish so well in South Italian atmosphere." [Hobsbawm: Revolution, p. 81]