Victor Amadeus : Victor Amadeus II (1666-1732), Duke of Savoy, the first king of Sardinia-Piedmont who established the foundation for the future Italian national state.
... that Naples and Sicily were republics under King Bomba, or Rome under the Popes, or Tuscany under the Grand Duke, or Lombardy under the Austrians, or Sardinia and Piedmont under the descendants of Victor Amadeus. Then again Mr. Ghose has "observed" that the different States of Greece developed a national unity as soon as they had a common enemy in the Persian. Really? We had always thought that the one ...
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