ITALINA HISTORY

Italy became an independent nation state only in 1871; prior to this point it was politically divided into a series

Italia (which may have originated as a Greekized form of Italic Vitelia or “calf land”) initially refereed only to the

At the height of Italy’s mass emigration during its century-long mass exodus between 1876 and 1976, the U.S. was by

Since October 12th 1946, Italy’s national anthem has been “Canto degli Italiani”, composed in Autumn 1847 by Genoese student and

Since 1861, over 24 million Italians have left Italy since unification; that figure amounts to almost one third of Italy’s