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In 1862 he again joined Garibaldi during his failed attempt to free Rome.

In 1866 Venetia was ceded by France, who had obtained it from Austria at the end of the Austro-Prussian War, to the new Kingdom of Italy, which had been created in 1861 under the Savoy monarchy.

At this time Mazzini was frequently in polemics with the course followed by the unification of his country, and in 1867 he refused a seat in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

In 1870, during an attempt to free Sicily, he was arrested and imprisoned in Gaeta.

He was freed in October due to the amnesty conceded after the successful capture of Rome, and returned to London in mid-December.