Hunger Robbers for Robbery Wars, 6

Another beneficiary of British funds was Mazzini’s Giovine Italia, who used them for insurrections, political assassinations and massacres, including those aimed at encouraging, so to speak, British allies to a more supportive attitude on the “Italian Question”.
Nievo, lastly, was a Garibaldian who went down with one of the steamships on their way to Sicily in the Tyrrhenian Sea, thirteen days before the proclamation of the Kingdom of italy; the circumstances of the sinking are suspicious: the steamship lose contact with the ship preceding it, there was delay in rescuing, and it was the only ship heading to Sicily in the Tyrrhenian Sea who went down. Nievo was in charge for administering the Garibaldian expeditionary corps, and in order to defend himself against allegations of mismanagement he had to draw up a detailed report of the expenditures incurred, a report from which the contributions received from London and Turin, the bribes paid to Bourbonist generals and officials, and the loot of the dispossession of the South would emerge; a report that went down with him.
As to the key role of secret societies, suffice it to say here that Garibaldi was affiliated to the Asile de la Vertu Masonic lodge of Montevideo, in 1864 became Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy, and in 2011 his successor in that role stated that the Italian unification would have been impossible without Freemasonry. The Carbonari exalted in our schoolbooks, the Freemasonry most of these patriots were members of, were essentially at some Grand Master’s service; and the British prime minister Palmerston was the founder of the Masonic Royal Order of Sion.
So much for the “patriots”.

After the “Risorgimento” treatment:
First things first: the plunder.
One thing above all: the gold reserves of the newborn Kingdom of Italy amounted to about 607 million Lira; of these, 27 from Turin, 443 from Naples.