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The Other Fathers of Confederation

Summary by The Epoch Times
Commentary While Lower and Upper Canadians were grappling with the 1840 Constitution that forced them together in an unpopular Union, Pope Pius IX, 6,500 kilometres away in Rome, was planning a Confederation of the Italian states with himself as president. But Italian nationalists had other plans. One extremist assassinated the Pope’s prime minister, Pellegrino Rossi, in 1848. The nationalists proceeded to conquer Italy piece by piece from 1859 …

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The Epoch Times broke the news in New York, United States on Friday, June 6, 2025.
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