The Italian peninsula, after so many centuries of division and foreign rule since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, would ultimately f...

Only the second king of the House of Savoy, Carlo Emanuele III was undoubtedly one of the most ambitious and military-minded of the family...

The idea of some sort of a unification of the Italian peninsula was one that long predated the series of wars for Italian independence. In...

It was on this day in 1861 that the first Italian parliament, assembled in Turin, proclaimed the birth of the Kingdom of Italy, the united...