Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) and Related Topics

Northern Italy

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Geographical and cultural region in the northern part of Italy.

Ancient peoples of Northern Italy, with Celtic peoples shown in blue.

Migration of the Lombards towards Northern Italy

Member cities of the first and second Lombard League.

The Iron Crown of Lombardy, for centuries a symbol of the Kings of Italy

Anti-Fascist Partisans in the streets of Bologna after the general insurrection of April 1945

The Alps in Val Maira, Province of Cuneo

Farming landscape in the Po Plain at Sant'Agata Bolognese

Alpine lakes like Lake Garda are characterised by warmer microclimates than the surrounding areas

Fog on the Secchia River near Modena. Fog is a common occurrence in the Po Plain

Languages and regional varieties in Italy

After the French Revolution in the late 18th century Northern Italy was conquered by the French armies, many client republics were created by Napoleon and in 1805 a new Kingdom of Italy, made of all of Northern Italy but Piedmont that was annexed to France, was established with Milan as capital and Napoleon as head of state.

Veneto

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One of the 20 regions of Italy.

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.

St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.

The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

Then in 1805–1806, it was conquered by Napoleon's armies and included in the Kingdom of Italy.

Italian Republic (Napoleonic)

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Short-lived (1802–1805) republic located in Northern Italy.

Northern Italy in 1803 (borders between Italy and France are not accurate)

The Consulta of the République cisalpine receives the First Consul, 26 January 1802, Nicolas-André Monsiau, 1806–08

In 1805, following Bonaparte's assumption of the title of Emperor of the French, the Italian Republic was transformed into the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia), with Napoleon as king and his stepson Eugène de Beauharnais as viceroy.

Napoleon

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French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.

Napoleon's father, Carlo Buonaparte, was Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI.

Statue of Napoleon as a schoolboy in Brienne, aged 15, by Louis Rochet (1853)

Napoleon Bonaparte, aged 23, as lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of Corsican Republican volunteers. Portrait by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux

Journée du 13 Vendémiaire, artillery fire in front of the Church of Saint-Roch, Paris, Rue Saint-Honoré

Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole, by Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, (c. 1801), Musée du Louvre, Paris

Bonaparte during the Italian campaign in 1797

Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (c. 1886) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Hearst Castle

Battle of the Pyramids on 21 July 1798 by Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, 1808

General Bonaparte surrounded by members of the Council of Five Hundred during the Coup of 18 Brumaire, by François Bouchot

Bonaparte, First Consul, by Ingres. Posing the hand inside the waistcoat was often used in portraits of rulers to indicate calm and stable leadership.

Silver coin: 5 francs_AN XI, 1802, Bonaparte, First Consul

The Battle of Marengo was Napoleon's first great victory as head of state.

The 1803 Louisiana Purchase totalled 827,987 sqmi, doubling the size of the United States.

The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David (1804)

Napoleon and the Grande Armée receive the surrender of Austrian General Mack after the Battle of Ulm in October 1805. The decisive finale of the Ulm Campaign raised the tally of captured Austrian soldiers to 60,000. With the Austrian army destroyed, Vienna would fall to the French in November.

Napoléon in his coronation robes by François Gérard, c. 1805

Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz, by François Gérard 1805. The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's many victories, where the French Empire defeated the Third Coalition.

The Iranian envoy Mirza Mohammed Reza-Qazvini meeting with Napoleon I at the Finckenstein Palace in West Prussia, 27 April 1807, to sign the Treaty of Finckenstein

Napoleon reviewing the Imperial Guard before the Battle of Jena

The Treaties of Tilsit: Napoleon meeting with Alexander I of Russia on a raft in the middle of the Neman River

Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, as King of Spain

Napoleon accepting the surrender of Madrid, 4 December 1808

Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, painted by Horace Vernet

The entry of Napoleon in Schönbrunn, Vienna

The French Empire at its greatest extent in 1812:

Napoleon watching the fire of Moscow in September 1812, by Adam Albrecht (1841)

Napoleon's withdrawal from Russia, painting by Adolph Northen

Napoleon's farewell to his Imperial Guard, 20 April 1814, by Antoine-Alphonse Montfort

Napoleon after his abdication in Fontainebleau, 4 April 1814, by Paul Delaroche

Napoleon leaving Elba on 26 February 1815, by Joseph Beaume (1836)

Napoleon's Return from Elba, by Charles de Steuben, 1818

Napoleon on Saint Helena, watercolor by Franz Josef Sandmann, c. 1820

Longwood House, Saint Helena, site of Napoleon's captivity

Frederick Marryat's sketch of Napoleon's body on his deathbed

Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides in Paris

Napoleon's remains passing through Jamestown, St Helena on 13 October 1840

Napoleon on His Death Bed, by Horace Vernet, 1826

Situation of Napoleon's body when his coffin was reopened on St Helena, by Jules Rigo, 1840

Reorganisation of the religious geography: France is divided into 59 dioceses and 10 ecclesiastical provinces.

Leaders of the Catholic Church taking the civil oath required by the Concordat

Napoleon visiting the Palais Royal for the opening of the 8th session of the Tribunat in 1807, by Merry-Joseph Blondel

Napoleon is often represented in his green colonel uniform of the Chasseur à Cheval of the Imperial Guard, the regiment that often served as his personal escort, with a large bicorne and a hand-in-waistcoat gesture.

First remittance of the Légion d'Honneur, 15 July 1804, at Saint-Louis des Invalides, by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1812)

First page of the 1804 original edition of the Code Civil

Statue in Cherbourg-Octeville unveiled by Napoleon III in 1858. Napoleon I strengthened the town's defences to prevent British naval incursions.

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, showing Spanish resisters being executed by French troops

A mass grave of soldiers killed at the Battle of Waterloo

1814 caricature of Napoleon being exiled to Elba: the ex-emperor is riding a donkey backwards while holding a broken sword.

Ceramic pitcher of Bonaparte: Where is he going to. To Elba. (Musée de la Révolution française).

Bas-relief of Napoleon in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives

Joséphine, first wife of Napoleon, obtained the civil dissolution of her marriage under the Napoleonic Code, painting by Henri Frédéric Schopin, 1843

Marriage of Napoleon and Marie-Louise by Georges Rouget, 1843

Napoleon Crossing the Alps, romantic version by Jacques-Louis David in 1805

Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, realist version by Paul Delaroche in 1848

The treaty confirmed the Austrian loss of lands to France in Italy and Bavaria, and lands in Germany to Napoleon's German allies.

South Tyrol

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Autonomous province in northern Italy, one of the two that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.

The Atlas Tyrolensis, showing the entire County of Tyrol, printed in Vienna. 1774

A map from 1874 showing South Tirol with approximately the borders of today's South and East Tyrol

Plaque at a German-language school in both Italian and German

Map of South Tyrol with its eight districts

The Laubengasse or Via dei portici, a street in the capital Bolzano

Group of spruce and pine trees in Latemar forest

Luis Durnwalder was governor of South Tyrol from 1989 until 2014

Widmann Palace in Bolzano, seat of the provincial government

Vineyards of St. Magdalena in Bozen with St. Justina and Rosengarten group in the background

Cable car on Mount Seceda in the Dolomites

Electronic identity cards are issued in three languages (Italian, German, English) in South Tyrol.

Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Bolzano

A Musikkapelle in historic Tyrolean costumes

Tirol Castle, which gave the wider region its name

The term had been the name of political subdivisions along the Adige River in the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, who created the Department of Alto Adige, part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.

Lombardy

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One of the twenty administrative regions of Italy.

Pizzo Coca is the highest peak in the Bergamasque Alps (3,050 m)

The Adda, the longest river within the region and tributary of the Po

The Rock Drawings in Valcamonica are among the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world.

For centuries, the Iron Crown of Lombardy was used in the Coronation of the King of Italy.

The Consulta of the République cisalpine receives the First Consul on 26 January 1802

A view over the business district of Milan: with a metropolitan area of 7.4m people, it is Italy's most important industrial, commercial and financial center.

Palazzo Lombardia, the main seat of the government of Lombardy.

The provinces/metropolitan cities of Lombardy

The Last Supper, Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy (1499), by Leonardo da Vinci

The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo (2016)

Gorgonzola cheese takes its name from the homonymous city near Milan

The auditorium of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Dolce & Gabbana is headquartered in Milan.

Provolone Valpadana (pasta filata cheese)

Austrian rule was interrupted in the late 18th century by the French armies; under Napoleon, Lombardy became the centre of the Cisalpine Republic and of the Kingdom of Italy, both being puppet states of France's First Empire, having Milan as capital and Napoleon as head of state.

Eugène de Beauharnais

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French nobleman, statesman and military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

Eugène de Beauharnais (Eugenio di Beauharnais) as Viceroy of Italy, by Andrea Appiani (1810)

Tomb monument of Eugène de Beauharnais in St. Michael's Church, Munich, sculpted by Bertel Thorvaldsen

He commanded the Army of Italy during the Napoleonic Wars, and was Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy under his stepfather.

Milan

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City in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

Roman ruins in Milan: the Columns of San Lorenzo

The remains of the Milan amphitheatre, which can be found inside the archaeological park of the Antiquarium in Milan

The biscione eating a child on the Visconti coat of arms

The Medieval Porta Ticinese (1100), is one of the three medieval gates of the city that still exist in the modern Milan.

The late 16th-century city encircled by the Spanish walls

Milan during the plague of 1630: plague carts carry the dead for burial.

Ceremonial reception of Russian Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov in Milan, April 1799

Popular print depicting the "Five Days" uprising against Austrian rule.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II destroyed by Allied bombings, 1943

Palazzo Lombardia, headquarters of the regional government of Lombardy

Milan Cathedral is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world

Torre del Filarete of Sforza Castle (Castello Sforzesco), a historic medieval fortress.

Royal Villa of Milan, one of the finest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Lombardy

Art Deco Central railway station, the 8th busiest in Europe, opened in 1931

The Cimitero Monumentale, it is noted for the abundance of artistic tombs and monuments.

St. Ambrose Basilica dates back from AD 379–386

The skyscrapers of Porta Nuova business district

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, together with the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Museo del Novecento displays the world's largest collection of Futurist art.

Founded in 1778, La Scala is the world's most famous opera house.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is one of the city's largest shopping centres.

San Siro Stadium, home of A.C. Milan and Inter Milan, has a capacity of 80,000. It is Italy's biggest stadium.

Mediolanum Forum, home of Olimpia Milano

The Monza Formula One circuit is located near the city, inside a suburban park.

Bocconi University is a leading institution for economics, management and related disciplines in Europe.

University of Milan Bicocca, the city's newest university, ranks as the 82nd best young college on over 300 institutions in the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Milan Metro is Italy's longest rapid transit system.

Later, he declared Milan capital of the Kingdom of Italy and was crowned King of Italy in the cathedral.

Republic of Ragusa

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Aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian, German and Latin; Raguxa in Venetian) in Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia) that carried that name from 1358 until 1808.

Borders of the Republic of Ragusa, from 1426 (encompassing also the area labelled "Neum" until 1718)

Territory of the Republic of Ragusa, early 18th century

Old map of the Republic of Ragusa, dated 1678

Ragusan tallero (1½ ducat) of 1752 with the effigy of a former Rector

Flags of the Republic of Ragusa in the 18th century, according to the French Encyclopédie

Marshal Auguste de Marmont, Duke of Ragusa during French rule

Location of the Republic of Ragusa within present-day Croatia

The Rector's Palace (the seat of the Rector, the Minor Council, the Senate and the administration of the Republic from the 14th century to 1808), behind it the Sponza Palace

Ceremonial sword of the Rector of Ragusa, donated 1466 by King Matthias Corvinus as a sign of his judicial authority

Tears of the Prodigal Son, cover of the 1622 edition by Ivan Gundulić, Croatian Baroque poet

It reached its commercial peak in the 15th and the 16th centuries, before being conquered by Napoleon's French Empire and formally annexed by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1808.

Verona

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City on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants.

The Lion of Saint Mark, located in Piazza delle Erbe, the symbol of the Venetian Republic

The Arche scaligere, tombs of the ancient lords of Verona

Panoramic view of the city from Castel San Pietro

Palazzo del Governo is the seat of the Province of Verona

San Zeno Basilica, like many other Veronese churches, is built with alternating layers of white stone and bricks

It was taken from Austria by the Treaty of Pressburg in 1805 and became part of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy, but was returned to Austria following Napoleon's defeat in 1814, when it became part of the Austrian-held Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia.

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