Carolina Armenteros, PhD. (2005), University of Cambridge, is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for European Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. Her extensive publications on political thought include her monograph The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794-1854 (Cornell, 2011).Andrea Ungari, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Contemporary History at the Università Guglielmo Marconi and Professor of the Theory and History of Political Parties and Political Movements at the Università Luiss Guido Carli. He has published more than a dozen books on Italian political and institutional history, including La guerra del Re. Monarchia, sistema politico e Forze armate nella Grande Guerra (Luini, 2018).

• Notes on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroductionCarolina Armenteros and Andrea Ungari1 The Savoy Monarchy and the Parliamentary System: From the Kingdom of Sardinia to the Kingdom of ItalyAndrea Ungari2 “Changes Appropriate to the Times, and Circumstances”: The Crown and the Modernization of the State in the Kingdom of Sardinia (1814–53)Giulio Stolfi3 The Pact and Its Overseer: Crown and Modern Constitutionalism in the Kingdom of Sardinia (1844–52)Romano Ferrari Zumbini4 Constitutionalism or “Neoabsolutism”? Monarchies in Italy, 1848–1859/1866Frans Willem Lantink5 The Making of Italy (through the Ephemeral): The First Italian Parliament between State-Building, “Risorgimental Neo-Medievalism,” and Glorification of the House of SavoyTommaso Zerbi6 More than Kings: The Role of the Italian Monarchs in the State-Building Process and Foreign AffairsValentina Villa7 The Role of the Crown in the Building of an Italian Identity (1878–1922)Paolo Colombo8 1925: The Jubilee of King Victor Emmanuel III Monarchy and Fascism in a Year of Transition and AfterwardChristian SattoConclusionsFrancesco BoniniBibliographyIndex

Carolina Armenteros, PhD. (2005), University of Cambridge, is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for European Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. Her extensive publications on political thought include her monograph The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794-1854 (Cornell, 2011).Andrea Ungari, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Contemporary History at the Università Guglielmo Marconi and Professor of the Theory and History of Political Parties and Political Movements at the Università Luiss Guido Carli. He has published more than a dozen books on Italian political and institutional history, including La guerra del Re. Monarchia, sistema politico e Forze armate nella Grande Guerra (Luini, 2018).

• Notes on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroductionCarolina Armenteros and Andrea Ungari1 The Savoy Monarchy and the Parliamentary System: From the Kingdom of Sardinia to the Kingdom of ItalyAndrea Ungari2 “Changes Appropriate to the Times, and Circumstances”: The Crown and the Modernization of the State in the Kingdom of Sardinia (1814–53)Giulio Stolfi3 The Pact and Its Overseer: Crown and Modern Constitutionalism in the Kingdom of Sardinia (1844–52)Romano Ferrari Zumbini4 Constitutionalism or “Neoabsolutism”? Monarchies in Italy, 1848–1859/1866Frans Willem Lantink5 The Making of Italy (through the Ephemeral): The First Italian Parliament between State-Building, “Risorgimental Neo-Medievalism,” and Glorification of the House of SavoyTommaso Zerbi6 More than Kings: The Role of the Italian Monarchs in the State-Building Process and Foreign AffairsValentina Villa7 The Role of the Crown in the Building of an Italian Identity (1878–1922)Paolo Colombo8 1925: The Jubilee of King Victor Emmanuel III Monarchy and Fascism in a Year of Transition and AfterwardChristian SattoConclusionsFrancesco BoniniBibliographyIndex

Carolina Armenteros, PhD. (2005), University of Cambridge, is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for European Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. Her extensive publications on political thought include her monograph The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794-1854 (Cornell, 2011).Andrea Ungari, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Contemporary History at the Università Guglielmo Marconi and Professor of the Theory and History of Political Parties and Political Movements at the Università Luiss Guido Carli. He has published more than a dozen books on Italian political and institutional history, including La guerra del Re. Monarchia, sistema politico e Forze armate nella Grande Guerra (Luini, 2018).

• Notes on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroductionCarolina Armenteros and Andrea Ungari1 The Savoy Monarchy and the Parliamentary System: From the Kingdom of Sardinia to the Kingdom of ItalyAndrea Ungari2 “Changes Appropriate to the Times, and Circumstances”: The Crown and the Modernization of the State in the Kingdom of Sardinia (1814–53)Giulio Stolfi3 The Pact and Its Overseer: Crown and Modern Constitutionalism in the Kingdom of Sardinia (1844–52)Romano Ferrari Zumbini4 Constitutionalism or “Neoabsolutism”? Monarchies in Italy, 1848–1859/1866Frans Willem Lantink5 The Making of Italy (through the Ephemeral): The First Italian Parliament between State-Building, “Risorgimental Neo-Medievalism,” and Glorification of the House of SavoyTommaso Zerbi6 More than Kings: The Role of the Italian Monarchs in the State-Building Process and Foreign AffairsValentina Villa7 The Role of the Crown in the Building of an Italian Identity (1878–1922)Paolo Colombo8 1925: The Jubilee of King Victor Emmanuel III Monarchy and Fascism in a Year of Transition and AfterwardChristian SattoConclusionsFrancesco BoniniBibliographyIndex