L’UNIFICATION ITALIENNE ET LA PRINCIPAUTÉ DE SERBIE (1859-1862) D’APRÈS DES DOCUMENTS INÉDITS
THE ITALIAN UNIFICATION AND THE PRINCIPALITY OF SERBIA (1859-1862) THE APPROACHES OF DOCUMENTS INÉDITS

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes a new description of the diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Sardinia – Kingdom of Italy since 1861 – and the Principality of Serbia during a particularly delicate period of European history regarding the balances of forces in Central and Danubian Europe, at a time in which the diplomacy of Napoleon III’s France dominated Europe. The first part of the work, which deals with the action of the Sardinian consuls in Belgrade from the armistice of Villafranca until the death of the Prince Miloš Obrenović, who returned to the throne after the deposition of the Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević, is structured taking in consideration the most recent historiography (especially Italian and Serbian) devoted to the subject, without forgetting the older but still relevant reference works. The second part follows the contents of the edited Italian diplomatic documents that reveal the existence of a plan of a general uprising against the Habsburgs in the entire Hungary, whose creators were Kossuth and the general Klapka. This insurrection should to involve the action of the Danubian Principalities, Principality of Serbia, ruled by the Prince Michel (Mihailo) Obrenović III, and of the new Kingdom of Italy. Finally, this analysis is followed by a authentic transcription of a few of unpublished documents found in the Central State Archive in Rome, which provide new, remarkably interesting, and useful details about this project and its realization.

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