As a nation state, Italy has emerged only in 1871. Until then the country was politically divided into a large number of independant cities, provinces and islands. The currently available evidences point out to a dominant Etruscan, Greek and Roman cultural influence on today's Italians.
I, Father Don Giovanni Battista (Capradelia???) have baptized a young boy born today here in Monte of Giuseppe Sanfilippo and Antonina Serio, married, of Monte. To him I imposed the name Francesco. The godparents were Giuseppe Loiacono and his wife, Francesca (Savio???), married, of Monte.
From 12th October 1946, the national anthem of Italy has been the "Canto degli Italiani" (Chant of the Italians), written in the Autumn of 1847 by a Genoese student and patriot Goffredo Mameli, and set to music in Turin by another Genoese, Michele Novaro. Born during an atmosphere of patriotic fervo...