Listen to a Podcast About Italian History

From the Roman Republic through the Renaissance, unification, and into the modern era — explore the rich and turbulent history of the Italian peninsula and its outsized influence on world culture.

Italy was not unified as a single nation until 1861, when Giuseppe Garibaldi's military campaigns and Count Cavour's diplomacy merged dozens of independent states and kingdoms under King Victor Emmanuel II. The Italian peninsula served as the epicenter of both the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, with Florence alone producing figures like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Galileo within a span of roughly 200 years. Italy's post-war "economic miracle" of the 1950s-60s transformed the country from a largely agricultural nation into the world's sixth-largest economy.

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