Search

Demonstrates that even when crisis approached in 1848, Furst von Metternich was still unwilling to devolve power from Vienna, as was demanded by his assumed successor, Count Ficquelmont, who had been sent to Milan in 1847 in order, among other things, to assess the political/constitutional situation there. Politics and economics of Lombardy-Venetia under Australian rule between 1815 and 1848; How the Austrians reacted to the prospect of revolution; Apparent end to political cooperation by the Italian elites under the pressure of events.