Nationalism and The Creation of Italy

For many years, Italy's separate nations (before italy) did not want to unite because they were afraid to give all their power to one central government.  Those nations wanted to be independent and did not want to have anything to do with each other.  When the idea of nationalism started to rise and spread out through Europe they started to look into it more and more.  So, Nationalism basically helped Italy unite itself; before nationalism influenced the lives of the leaders from the sole nations, those nations were small and together became a very powerful country.