"I moved to Milan, a great people woke up opened his eyes a moment. Italy came out of his sleep, and remember his genius as a divine dream: .. she wore in the pettiness of our poverty, the greatness of nature Transalpine nourished as it was, this Ausonia, the masterpieces of the arts and high reminiscences of a country famous "

Chateaubriand


In these times we celebrate the one hundred and fifty of the unification of Italy, known as occurred March 17, 1861. Process occurred at the end of that long history known as the Risorgimento. However, a first seed of Italian, and not just in name, came with the birth of the Kingdom of Italy in 1805, was itself
Son of the Republic Cisalpine Cispadana and other flowers as a result of the French Revolution.
That led to two decades in Italy Napoleonic joys and sorrows, was a period
Overall, however, concurred that greatly, thanks to the affirmation of the revolutionary ideals and the statement made by the public through legislation by Napoleon, the rule of law.