* Bands ( Italian Army irregulars ), military units once in the service of the Italian Regio Esercito

However some cavalry still served during the Second World War, notably in the Red Army, Italian Royal Army and the Polish Army.

* Pietro Badoglio, General, Italian Army

* 1909 – Amedeo Guillet, former officer of the Italian Army ( d. 2010 )

In 1917, he joined an artillery regiment in the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought on the Italian front.

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.

Arimondi left there a small garrison of approximately 1, 150 askaris and 200 Italians, commanded by Major Giuseppe Galliano, and took the bulk of his troops to Adigrat, where Oreste Baratieri, the Italian commander, was concentrating the Italian Army.

As a consequence during WWII there was a strong support for Italy between many Muslim Libyans, who enrolled in the Italian Army

After the surrender of the Italian Army in September 1943, Albania was occupied by the Germans and soon exploded into a ferocious guerilla war.

During the war, the NLM's communist-dominated partisans, in the form of the National Liberation Army, did not heed warnings from the Italian occupiers that there would be reprisals for guerrilla attacks.

Alexander remained in command of 15th Army Group, as well as its successor, the Allied Armies in Italy, for most of the Italian Campaign, until December 1944, when he relinquished his command to Clark and took over as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Headquarters, responsible for all military operations in the Mediterranean Theatre.

During the Great War, the Italian Royal Army increased in size from 15, 000 men in 1914 to 160, 000 men in 1918, with 5 million recruits in total entering service during the war.

The Italian Armed Forces encompass the Italian Army, the Italian Navy, the Italian Air Force and the Carabinieri.

The Italian Army ( Esercito Italiano ) is the ground defense force of the Italian Republic.

Italy did take part in the 1990 – 91 Gulf War but solely through the deployment of eight Italian Air Force Panavia Tornado IDS bomber jets to Saudi Arabia ; Italian Army troops were subsequently deployed to assist Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq following the conflict.

This eventually discredited the Italian monarchy and led to its abolition in 1946.

They eventually settled in an Italian ghetto in Los Angeles, where Capra's father worked as a fruit picker and young Capra sold newspapers after school for the next 10 years, until he graduated high school.

This friendship eventually manifested in first the Peace of Lodi and then the Italian League, a multi-polar defensive alliance of Italian states that succeeded in stabilising almost all of Italy for its duration.

However, it was a city on the Italian Peninsula, Rome, that would eventually dominate the entire Mediterranean basin.

Unwilling to become an Italian puppet, King Zog, his wife, Queen Geraldine Apponyi, and their infant son Leka fled to Greece and eventually to London.

The Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 eventually caused the Italian political structure-and the economy-to rapidly collapse.

The Romans used the term indicum, which passed into Italian dialect and eventually into English as the word indigo.

Hitler initially declined any such aid but eventually allowed a small contingent of Italian fighters and bombers, the Italian Air Corps ( Corpo Aereo Italiano or CAI ), to assist in the Luftwaffe's aerial campaign over Britain in October / November 1940.

During the 5 years of Italian rule over the whole Horn of Africa ( a colony in Eritrea was set by Rome in 1870 and Ethiopia occupied in 1936 ), Italian geographers accurately mapped the population of their colony and eventually referred to the Oromos preferably as Gallas in all the official maps as well as in a guide-book still available nowadays called " Guida all Africa Orientale Italiana " (" A Guide-Book to Italian Eastern Africa ").

In England, the French suits were eventually used, although the earliest decks had the Italian suits.

German dictator Adolf Hitler ( right ) and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ( left ) pursue agendas of territorial expansion for their countries in the 1930s, eventually leading to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

In Renaissance usage, the Italian word cortigiana, feminine of cortigiano (" courtier ") came to refer to " the ruler's mistress ", and then to a well-educated and independent woman of loose morals, eventually a trained artisan of dance and singing, especially one associated with wealthy, powerful, or upper-class men who provided luxuries and status in exchange for companionship.

Pierre Louis Duchartre, in his The Italian Comedy theorizes that in France, the gentilified Brighella eventually culminated in the character of Figaro, known from the plays and operas.

According to the Aeneid, the survivors from the fallen city of Troy banded together under Aeneas, underwent a series of adventures around the Mediterranean Sea, including a stop at newly founded Carthage under the rule of Queen Dido, and eventually reached the Italian coast.

It developed in 16th century England, and was quickly adopted on the Continent where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite ( the French gigue ; Italian and Spanish giga ).

He eventually got a job in Brazil as an agent for Ala Littoria, the Italian state airline.

After 1000, Ancona became increasingly independent, eventually turning into an important maritime republic ( together with Gaeta, Trani and Ragusa, it is one of those not appearing on the Italian naval flag ), often clashing against the nearby power of Venice.

Many leading revolutionaries wanted a republic, but eventually it was a king and his chief minister who had the power to unite the Italian states as a monarchy.

The international force with British Lieutenant-General Alfred Gaselee acting as the commanding officer of the Eight-Nation Alliance, eventually numbered 55, 000, with the main contingent being composed of Japanese soldiers: Japanese ( 20, 840 ), Russian ( 13, 150 ), British ( 12, 020 ), French ( 3, 520 ), U. S .( 3, 420 ), German ( 900 ), Italian ( 2080 ), Austro-Hungarian ( 75 ) and anti-Boxer Chinese troops.

Parts of Italy were annexed to the Spanish, the Austrian and Napoleon I's empire, while the Holy See maintained control over Rome, before the Italian Peninsula was eventually liberated and unified in the late 19th century.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

As this expansion into current languages ( mainly Italian and French ) and current topics continued, the press took on another role and made perhaps even more important contributions.

It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.

In his later years he took to entertaining at home as chef – he had a special stove installed in his patio – and specialized in Chinese and Italian cooking.

The Italian film industry took shape between 1903 and 1908, led by three major organizations-Cines, based in Rome ; and the Turin-based companies ' Ambrosio ' and ' Itala Film '.

The Australian attack took more than 1, 500 prisoners, routed an Italian Division and overran the German Signals Intercept Company 621.

Despite some insignificant resistance, especially at Durrës, Italy invaded Albania on 7 April 1939 and took control of the country, with the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini proclaiming Italy's figurehead King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy as King of Albania.

Rosselli took part in the war, uniting a mix of Italian anti-fascist political forces, including socialists, anarchists, communists, and liberals together to support the Republican cause and took part in the fighting.

Rosselli was assassinated by a French fascist in 1937, the Italian brigade he had led took on the name the " Rosselli Brigade ".

The Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo brought together the ideas of other great thinkers of his time and began to analyze motion in terms of distance traveled from some starting position and the time that it took.

Her debut at Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as " Neocle " in the Italian version of Le siège de Corinthe, which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti ( as " Maffio Orsini "), Salvi and Pacini.

Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Bismarck, Roon and Moltke took charge at a time when relations among the Great Powers — Great Britain, France, Austria and Russia — had been shattered by the Crimean War of 1854 – 55 and the Italian War of 1859.

In 2007, Italian investigators reported that 75 % of the patients in their study who took peppermint oil capsules for four weeks had a major reduction in irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS ) symptoms, compared with just 38 % of those who took a placebo.

Pacelli took the same papal name as his predecessor, a title used exclusively by Italian Popes.

The Government refused to negotiate with the captors, while Italian political forces took either a hard line (" linea della fermezza ") or a more pragmatic approach (" linea del negoziato ").

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli took a series of photographs and videos of the ISS with Endeavour docked.

But before they arrived, members of the Italian resistance movement took control of the city and executed Mussolini along with several members of his collaborationist government.