Italy On This Day

Last ruler of Naples wanted to help the poor Francis II ruled for the final year before unification Francis II, the last King of the Two Sic...

The day the Pope had to slip out of the side door of his palace Pope Pius IX fled Rome in the face  of a revolutionary uprising  Fearing for...

The heir presumptive whose marriage earned him exile Charles Ferdinand with his wife, the Irishwoman Penelope Smyth Charles Ferdinand...