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From 1849 to 1861 he was also Duke of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont and Duke of Genoa.
He is also remembered with the name of King Galantuomo, because after his accession to the throne he did not withdraw the Albertine Statute promulgated by his father Carlo Alberto.

Reinforced by the President of the Council Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, brought to completion the Resurrection, culminated in the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy.

Thanks to the role played to realize the Unity of Italy, he is referred to as Father of the Homeland. So called, it appears in the inscription present in the Vittoriano, the national monument that he takes the name of in Rome, in Piazza Venezia.

Biography

Childhood and youth

Vittorio Emanuele was the firstborn of Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, and Maria Teresa of Tuscany. He was born in Turin in the Palazzo dei Principi di Carignano and spent his first years in Florence. The father Carlo Alberto was one of the few male members of Casa Savoia and belonged to the cadet branch of Savoia-Carignano. It was the second in the line of succession to the throne.

Carlo Alberto, who was of liberal sympathy, was involved in the motions of 1821, which led to the abdication of Vittorio Emanuele I. For this reason, the new King Carlo Felice of Savoy ordered Carlo Alberto to go with his family to Novara.

Carlo Felice, who did not love Carlo Alberto, soon sent him a transfer order in Tuscany, completely outside the Kingdom. For this reason, Carlo Alberto departed with the family for Florence, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, at the time erected by the maternal grandfather of Vittorio Emanuele, the Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany. In Florence, Vittorio Emanuele was entrusted to the Preceptor Giuseppe Dabormida, who led the sons of Carlo Alberto to a military discipline.

In 1822 Vittorio Emanuele survived a fire that broke out in the Florentine house of his mother's grandfather, in which he died his feeding. This event, along with the poor physical and character resemblance between Vittorio Emanuele and his parents, contributed to the birth and fortune of the rumor according to which the true Vittorio Emanuele would die child during the fire and then replaced with the son of a Florentine butcher.

In 1831 Carlo Alberto returned to Turin to succeed Carlo Felice di Savoia. Vittorio Emanuele followed him to Turin and was entrusted to Count Cesare Saluzzo of Monesiglio, flanked by a stun of preceptors including General Ettore De Sonnaz, theologian Andrea Charvaz, historian Lorenzo Isnardi and jurist Giuseppe Manno. The pedagogical discipline for the rampages of Casa Savoia had always been Spartan. Preceptors, rigid formalists chosen on the basis of the attachment to the throne and to the altar, imposed rigid hours in both summer and winter. The typical day was so structured: the alarm was scheduled at 5:30 and the morning was scanned by three hours of study followed by an hour of riding. There was then an hour for the