kingdom of italy

Peering inside the basilica of Sant’Agnese, among the images of saints that are sometimes well-known, sometimes fairly obscure, there’s certainly an image that is more striking than all others. It's one of men in uniform and prelates in cassocks among broken support beams and ripped-apart...

On 1065, Abulchares, Catepan of Italy[1] marries Matilda I of Tuscany and converts to Catholicism, an important event in Italian History as it would shape the history of the Italian Peninsula as it would change the course of Italian history and start the end of the Fragmentation of Italy...

There were 3 missed chances otl wherein the Ottomans could have destroyed the Italian invading forces in Libya. A small squadron of destroyers had shadowed the Italian landing party during the start of the war, and had asked the tripoli government to directly fire at the landing forces whilst...

Context During 875-885 the Frankish kingdoms experienced a period of instability and quick successions which eventually led to the final unification of the empire under Charles the Fat due to sheer dumb luck when he was the only one who didn't die from one disease or another. In Italy Louis II...

In 1914, during the leadup to World War I, Italian general Alberto Pollio died. The official cause of death was a heart attack, but suspicions that he was murdered have floated for over a century. What if he had lived?

What would it take for Italy to become a major military power after it unifies to become a great power on the scale of France, Britain or the German Empire? Your only restriction is after the Napoleonic Wars. Could Sardinia/Sardinia-Piedmont emerge as a sort of Prussia of Italy unifying it and...

What is the Plausablility of the Italian City States, 1100AD, Unifying into a sort of 'United States of Italy'? and if so, how powerful would said State be? Would it be Capable of becoming a expansionary and effective Mediterranean superpower? (remember, Rome started off like this:) Rome...

I recently came across an article, detailing the political windfall that took place between the United States of American, and the then Kingdom of Italy following the lynchings of Italian immigrants in New Orleans in March, 1891. Despite a removal of both countries' diplomatic corps and...

Let's say that at some point before his rise to power, Mussolini either dies, gets captured, or just remains a communist, preventing fascism to take root in Italy. Would the ideology still exist in some form and become popular? What nations would be affected and how?

So the Trentino Offensive was meant to cut off the bulk of the Italian army from the rest of Italy and Austro-Hungarian forces nearly made it to the plains of Venetia before being checked by the Italians and forced to withdraw by the sudden Brusilov Offensive. Say Cardona fumbles the responce...

New Orleans: It was March 14 1891, a furious crowd of 3000 lead by William Parkerson was marching towards the local prison (Their intentions were clear: hundred of them were bringing guns.). The year before 19 Italians were accused of the murder of David Hennesy. That day in March 8 of them were...

What if the 1922 March on Rome by Mussolini and the Blackshirts escalated into a full on Coup detat/Civil war, leading to Mussolini ousting the Italian royal family and forming the Italian Social Republic earlier?

June 10, 1990 Prachtallee, Welthauptstadt Germania, German Reich 30 year old Ernst Gellman was a man of two minds: one seeking to serve the Reich, the other seeking its end. His teacher, his Hitler Youth commander, his parents, his training adviser, all told him that if he fought for the...

So, basic outline is Mussolini either dies in the Great War, or never gets serious afterward, and so Italy never becomes Fascist. Red revolts happens, but Emmanuel has a backbone in this case, and authorize the police to shoot and crush the insurrection. So the Kingdom of Italy tugs along for...

A spinoff from the other poll. The Western Roman Empire (or the empire in the west, depending on how you see it) is commonly stated to have fallen with either the overthrowing of Romulus Augustulus in 476 and the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy by Odoacer or the death of Julius Nepos in...

A thing that has puzzled me is that between 1815-1847 the Habsburgs controlled all the North Italian states, with the exception of Sardinia-Piedmont, yet there was never an attempt to organize it into a confederation with the Austrian Emperor at its head. Sure, Parma would/could secede post the...