كليمنس فون مترنيش (in a letter to the Austrian ambassador to France) (أبريل 1847). "Quotations About History - Metternich". "The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.". age-of-the-sage.org. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2019-02-14. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2015-08-10.
كليمنس فون مترنيش (in a letter to the Austrian ambassador to France) (أبريل 1847). "Quotations About History - Metternich". "The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.". age-of-the-sage.org. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2019-02-14. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2015-08-10.
Shared interests between the French and the liberal Lombard Federation had already been highlighted in 1849 by the nationalist historian كارلو كاتانيو [لغات أخرى] in his 3 volume work on the 1848 revolution, "Storia della Rivoluzione del 1848", published in Lugano in 1849:
