History

What is known as the South is the most ancient and soul-based part of Italy. It is difficult to give you a sense of the complex history and its depth in a few lines. We’ll do our best because knowing the history of a place we’ll give you a better understanding of its people and their culture. We also believe that at this point time, Italy as a nation needs a process of reconciliation that can only happen through the recovery of historical memory with respect to the history of the South, especially the one of the last of two-century since the annexation of the South, then known as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, to the Italian state.

  • The Kingdom of Two Sicilies
    Independent States The Kingdom of Two Sicilies, now known as Southern Italy, was the largest and most populous state of the Italian peninsula. The ...
  • Magna Graecia
    Magna Graecia (Greater Greece) was the name given by the Romans to the coastal areas of Southern Italy, extensively populated by Greek settlers. The settlers who began arriving in the ...
  • The Kingdom of Two Sicilies and the USA
    When the United States declared independence from Great Britain in 1776, the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were independent and sovereign states. The King of ...
  • Tonight in Naples
    This Christmas the Italian television aired a superb service about Naples, the town I came from. More than 4 million watched it. This was my ...
  • The Kingdom of Two Sicilies and England
    Europe before the Kingdom of Two Sicilies annexation In order to understand how the Italian state was engineered a couple of centuries ago, it is important ...
  • The alliance between the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) and England
    Introduction The invasion of the South (Kingdom of Two Sicilies) did not happen by divine will, nor because the “heroes” and “martyrs” of the liberal (today ...
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi
    Some of the excerpts in this blog post are taken from the book: La storia delll’Italia Unita by Enrico Fagnano. Mr. Garibaldi one of the ...
  • The Tale of Two Banks
    Introduction Before we talk about banks, let’s remember what the economic situation of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies was compared to that of all the other ...
  • Bloody Civil War – An Untold Story
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