Italians know it as the ‘Risorgimento’, the process that consolidated the various states and kingdoms of Italy into a single entity called the ‘Kingdom of Italy.’ After the Second World War, the monarchy was abolished and it became the Italian Republic.
Books have been written and will continue to be written about Italy’s history and its contributions to all of humanity. Start dropping some names from history and imagine the world without them: Galileo, da Vinci, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Marconi, Machiavelli, Dante, Puccini, Sinatra (…had to throw in an Italian-American, after all…).