Context: During the Risorgimento, proponents of Italian republicanism and Italian nationalism, such as Alessandro Manzoni, stressed the importance of establishing a uniform national language in order to better create an Italian national identity. With the unification of Italy in the 1860s, standard Italian became the official national language of the new Italian state, while the various unofficial regional languages of Italy gradually became regarded as subordinate "dialects" to Italian, increasingly associated negatively with lack of education or provincialism. However, at the time of the Italian Unification, standard Italian still existed mainly as a literary language, and only 2.5% of Italy's population could speak standard Italian.

Question: What Italian nationalist spoke of the importance of a national Italian language?
Answer: Alessandro Manzoni

Question: During what period was the importance of having an Italian national language raised?
Answer: the Risorgimento

Question: In what decade was Italy unified?
Answer: 1860s

Question: What percentage of Italians spoke standard Italian when Italy was first unified?
Answer: 2.5%

Question: When Italy was unified, what was named the official national language?
Answer: standard Italian

Question: During what period were proponents of Italian Unification stressing the importance of establishing a uniform national language?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did Alessandro Manzoni stress the importance of creating an Italian state?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: During which decade was Italy de-unified?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did Risorgimento become the official language of the new Italian state?
Answer: Unanswerable