Charles Albert was the King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard state from 27 April 1831 until his abdication in 1849. His name is bound up with the first Italian constitution,the Albertine Statute,and with the First Italian War of Independence (1848–1849).
Victor Emmanuel II was King of Sardinia from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861,when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent,united Italy since the 6th century,a title he held until his death in 1878. Borrowing from the old Latin title Pater Patriae of the Roman emperors,the Italians gave him the epithet of Father of the Fatherland.
The University of Turin is a public research university in the city of Turin,in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an important role in research and training. It is steadily ranked among the top 5 Italian universities and it is ranked third for research activities in Italy,according to the latest data by ANVUR.
The Duchy of Parma and Piacenza was an Italian state created in 1545 and located in northern Italy,in the current region of Emilia-Romagna.
Francesco Faàdi Bruno was an Italian priest and advocate of the poor,a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faàdi Bruno's formula.
Michele Benedetto Gaetano Amari was a Sicilian patriot,liberal revolutionary and politician of aristocratic background,historian and orientalist. He rose to prominence as a champion of Sicilian independence from the Neapolitan Bourbon rule when he published his history of the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1842. He was a minister in the Sicilian revolutionary government of 1848–9 and in Garibaldi's revolutionary cabinet in Sicily in 1860. Having embraced the cause of Italian unification,he helped prepare the annexation of Sicily by the Kingdom of Sardinia and was active in his later years as a senator of the Kingdom of Italy.
The Diocese of Saluzzo is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy,centered in the comune of Saluzzo. The diocese was established on 29 October 1511 for political reasons,to transform the Marquisate of Saluzzo into an ecclesiastic territory,and was directly dependent upon the Holy See. It is now a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Turin.
The Archdiocese of Turin is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in Italy.
Claudio Gabriele de Launay was an Italian military officer who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 27 March to 7 May 1849. Previously he had been the last Viceroy of Sardinia from 1843 to 1848.
Giovanni Battista Biscarra or Jean-Baptiste Biscarra was an Italian painter,sculptor and lithographer. He principally painted historical and religious subjects and royal portraits.
The Kingdom of Sardinia,also referred to as the Kingdom ofSardinia-Piedmont or Piedmont-Sardinia as a composite state during the Savoyard period,was a country in Southern Europe from the late 13th until the mid-19th century.
Carlo Ilarione Petitti count of Roreto was an Italian economist,academic,writer,counsellor of state,and senator of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He is seen as a prominent figure in the Italian Risorgimento.
The Perfect Fusion was the 1847 act of the Savoyard King Charles Albert of Sardinia which abolished the administrative differences between the mainland states and the island of Sardinia within the Kingdom of Sardinia,in a fashion similar to the Nueva Planta decrees between the Crown of Castile and the realms of the Crown of Aragon between 1707 and 1716 and the Acts of Union between Great Britain and Ireland in 1800.
Francesco Gerbaldi was an Italian geometer,who proved Gerbaldi's theorem.
Giovanni Luigi Malvezzi de' Medici was a politician,patriot,and Italian scholar.
Giovanni Filippo Galvagno was an Italian lawyer and politician. He served in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He was mayor of Turin under the Kingdom of Italy.
Paolo Onorato Vigliani was an Italian magistrate and politician. He served twice as Minister of Justice.
Pier Dionigi Pinelli was an Italian politician.
Agostino Petitti Bagliani,Count of Roreto was an Italian general and politician of the Risorgimento.
Count Rufo Pompeo Provana del Sabbione was an Italian admiral and senator who briefly served as Minister of the Navy in 1867 and 1868.
