DO YOU AGREE THAT , the unification of italy was an accident of history

In 1815 hopes of italian unification were dented by the Vienna congress.Austrian control was restored directly in Lombardy and Venetia, indirectly in the Papal states.Mazzini remarked in 1815 "through out Europe one stroke of pen erased all our hopes, all our liberties'.The settlement resulted in numerous groups like the Cabonari, Young Italy being formed, spear heading for the unification.By 1848-49 the forces working for unification had completely failed.
From 1850 onward events rapidly took place that are still being debated, were the events planeed or not? The traditional view say that Cavour planned the unification, they assert that he carried the Piedmont industrialiasation to equip it economically and militarirly for the challenge of unification.This notion must be dismissed with the greatest cotempt it deserves because Cavour was not a an Italian patriot at all ,but a piedmonteese expansionist at heart.He carried those reforms to equip piedmont militarily and economically in p...