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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... [read more]
Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... [read more] Blog: Venice, Florence and Rome sloooow blogger
Date: December 14th 2008
Finally, i am getting around to another blog entry. I am in Rome right now, but need to cover Venice, and Florence with this entry as well. I want to start with Rome though. All of my life I have always heard, and always known that Rome was a vast and complex empire with an incredible capital city. That said, this "knowledge", was just something everyone knows, and that I had never really ta ... read more
Date: December 14th 2008
Finally, i am getting around to another blog entry. I am in Rome right now, but need to cover Venice, and Florence with this entry as well. I want to start with Rome though. All of my life I have always heard, and always known that Rome was a vast and complex empire with an incredible capital city. That said, this "knowledge", was just something everyone knows, and that I had never really ta ... read more
