Victor-Emmanuel II

Victor-Emmanuel II de Savoie · King of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy (1861–1878) · 1820–1878

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Victor Emmanuel II mainly in connection with Verdi and Italian unification, whose fate he links to that of the composer1. Between 2021 and 2024, he returns several times to the same point: the letters of the name VERDI form the initials of "Vittorio Emanuele Re d'Italia", that is, "Victor Emmanuel King of Italy"2 3. In 2024, in a session devoted to the Grail quest, he presents him as King of Piedmont before recalling this play on initials4. He uses the connection to show that the musician's name merges with that of the sovereign of unified Italy. The king also appears in another context. In a 2019 session devoted to Popper, he tells an anecdote, that of the perfumed shepherdess ("me l'hanno guastata"), which lets him illustrate the symbolic relationship to the body5. In the available passages, Victor Emmanuel II is never studied for his own sake: he serves as a reference point in discussions devoted to other subjects.

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Who is this?

Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di Savoia; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also informally known as Piedmont–Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878. Borrowing from the old Latin title Pater Patriae of the Roman emperors, the Italians gave him the epithet of "Father of the Fatherland" (Italian: Padre della Patria). […]

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