Moderate Party (Italy)

The Moderate Party (Italian: Partito Moderato), collectively called Moderates (Italian: Moderati), was an Italian pre-Unification political movement active during the Risorgimento (1815–1861). Moderates were never a formal party but only a movement of liberal-minded reformist patriots, usually secular, from politics, military, literature, and philosophy. As a big tent, Moderates generally supported confederalism, liberalism, and Romantic nationalism. Its factions, also informally divided between three main tendencies (neo-Guelphs, neutralists, and neo-Ghibellins), included both monarchists (with some supporting the House of Savoy and others supporting the pope), as well as a minority of republicans.