What Can and Cannot Be Treated as Regards Nationality and Identity: The Treaty of Zurich and the Dynamics of Unification Geopolitics
What Can and Cannot Be Treated as Regards Nationality and Identity: The Treaty of Zurich and the Dynamics of Unification Geopolitics

Summary/Abstract: The Unification of Italy is a process that began on 23 March 1848 when King Vittorio Emanuele II, helped the PrimeMinister Camillo Benso di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi, initiated its involvement in European politics. The proclamation of Victor Emmanuel II as King of Italy and the establishment of the capital of the Kingdom in Rome were subject to the general enthusiasm in Italy and Romania. Officially, Rome became capital on 1st of July 1871. The Romanians attitude did not remain without effect in Italy, because on April 21, 1879, at a banquet “with a little more pomp than in the past” offered by the mayor of the capital, Prince Ruspoli, during the celebration of the city (2632 years from the foundation of Rome, April 21, 753 BC.), among the heads of the diplomatic missions and ambassadors was a single Charge d'Affaires, that of Romania. The mayor motivated this “exception” by the following words: “in the eyes of the municipality, the representative of the Romania is the one less foreign than other representatives”.

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