Italian may refer to: . Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries . Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom; Italian language, a Romance language . Regional Italian, regional variants of the Italian language; Languages of Italy, languages and dialects spoken in Italy; Italian culture, cultural features of Italy

Italian nationalism emerged in the 19th century and was the driving force for Italian unification or the Risorgimento (meaning the "Resurgence" or "Revival"). It was the political and intellectual movement that consolidated the different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.