Cavour (1810-1861) has always been seen as the indispensable man in the story of the unification of Italy. But, without the King, there might have been no unification. Maybe: ever! But if the person, the royal person of Vittorio Emanuele II, was essential in order to create a unified Italian peninsula, none of it would have happened without Cavour. He had a plan, a secret plan, and it worked. He did not live to see it work. He died(1861)just when Italy needed him the most, exactly as the United States lost its Lincoln at the crucial moment.
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