Il Risorgimento (English: "The Resurgence") was a liberal, nationalist newspaper founded in Turin, Italy, on 15 December 1847 by Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour and Cesare Balbo, who was a backbone of the "neo-Guelph" party that saw in future a rejuvenated Italy under a republican government with a papal presidency—ideas with which Cavour did not agree.
Thus without seeming to lead, Cavour's Il Risorgimento offered a regimen of liberal political ideas, of constitutionalism and freedom from foreign control.
Cavour's editorials were produced with the longer view of preparing Sardinia-Piedmont for a leading role in the coming upheavals, which came to the fore in the revolutionary events of 1848–49.
As editor of the newspaper, Cavour gained a great degree of influence in Sardinian politics; in an editorial on 23 March he pressed for a war to drive the Austrians from Lombardy and Venice, where urban revolutions were under way.
Although he withdrew as editor in October 1848, Il Risorgimento paved Cavour's way towards entering the government—he was appointed prime minister to Victor Emmanuel II in 1852, after Carlo Alberto's resignation—and a decade's career engineering Italian unification.