National Symbols of Italy - Altare Della Patria, Bollettino Della Vittoria, Emblem of Italy, Fert, Flag of Italy, Frecce Tricolori, Il Canto Degli (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Altare della Patria, Bollettino della Vittoria, Emblem of Italy, FERT, Flag of Italy, Frecce Tricolori, Il Canto degli Italiani, Italia Turrita, La Leggenda del Piave, Marcia Reale, Mural crown, Stella d'Italia. Excerpt: The flag of Italy (bandiera d'Italia, often referred to in Italian as Il Tricolore) is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side. In its current form it has been in use since 19 June 1946 and was formally adopted on 1 January 1948. The first entity to use the Italian tricolour was the Repubblica Cispadana (Cispadane Republic) in 1797, after Napoleon's victorious army crossed Italy. During this time many small republics of Jacobin inspiration supplanted the ancient absolute states and almost all, with variants of colour, used flags characterised by three bands of equal size, clearly inspired by the French model of 1790. The colours chosen by the Republic were red and white, the colours of the flag of Milan and green, which was the colour of the uniform of the Milanese civic guard. Some have attributed particular values to the colours and a common interpretation is that the green represents the country's plains and the hills, white, the snow-capped Alps and red, blood spilt in the Wars of Italian Independence. A more religious interpretation is that the green represents hope, the white represents faith and the red represents charity; this references the three theological virtues. The first official tricolore italiano, or Italian tricolour was adopted on 7 January 1797, when the XIVth Parliament of the Cispadane Republic, on the proposal of deputy Giuseppe Compagnoni of Lugo, decreed "to make universal the ... standard or flag of three colours, green, white and red ..." This was probably because the Legione Lombarda had carried...