Perfect Fusion

Although the Sardinian people had been showing hostility against the new Piedmontese rulers since the failed insurrection in 1794,[1][2] the island's separate status from the mainland became a problem for the local notables from two major cities of Cagliari and Sassari[3][4] when liberal reforms began to be put in force in Turin, and some of them started to see their own legal system as a handicap more than a privilege.

A minority of other Sardinian notables, like Giovanni Battista Tuveri and Federico Fenu, were not in favour of the idea for fear that further moves toward the centralisation of the Savoy-led kingdom might have followed thereafter.

A new legal system entered into force in Sardinia, and the last viceroy, Claudio Gabriele de Launay, left Cagliari on 4 March 1848.

On the whole, the island became an even more marginal part of the Savoyard kingdom,[7] raising the so-called "Sardinian Question" pertaining to its difficult process of integration within a single national body:[8][9][10][11][12] more specifically, Sardinians lost their former powers of taxation and autonomous representation in exchange for the Piedmontese Parliament taking over legislative responsibility on the island and some seats in the Congress.

On the contrary, Sardinia's fusion into an Italian unitary state provoked, as a response, a marked increase in banditry and criminal activities against the central authorities.