Talk:Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

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[edit] Crimean War

Joined Britain and France in the Crimean war? How about the Ottoman Empire? It is one thing to have a Eurocentric point of view in history narrative but ignoring a participant of a war altogether is perhaps something even worse... Why did these Europeans fight a war in a far off land at the very first place? 150.216.151.34 03:26, 18 February 2007 (UTC)


Austria was totally against Italy´s unification because, the Austrian Empire was going to loose territory in the process of Italy´s unification, that was one of the difficulties, also some people who weren´t visionaries, didn´t like much the idea of Italy´s unification, e.g. imagine there would be a unified states of Latin America, loads of people would be totally against it ,(like me)so we now we see the unification of Italy quite good, but remember on those times, they were just as on the example, they were like a latin american person who just heard about an idea, wich changed the whole states future and made Itlay itself! frances munar a

[edit] Styles of Victor Emmanuel II box

This seems to me to be absurdly and I am going to remove it. It tells us that

his reference style is His Majesty
the spoken style is Your Majesty
and the alternative style is Sire

But he wasn’t English. He spoke French, Piedmontese and some Italian. The only point of this box that occurs to me is that if I were to meet him during a seance I could say some things that wouldn’t embarass that side of myself which has an excessive need for propriety. —Ian Spackman 17:08, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Excommunication

Can anyone show that his excommunication actually was overturned? I am not sure that it was. His actions that got him excommunicatied were very grave indeed.--Billiot 16:26, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

The lifting of the excommunication, at the last minute, is discussed in G. S. Godkin's Life of Victor Emmanuel II, Macmillan, (1880). I understand that this book is still in print in Great Britain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Italus (talk • contribs) 03:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Pretty sure hes in hell right now anyway. If anybody has a way to contact Gengis Kahn or Josef Stalin to vertify, that would be great. - Gennarous (talk) 19:48, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Birth

I checked the infoboxes for Washington, Stalin & Gorbechev, & they show places of birth as countries that existed at the time, not those that exist now or at their death. I know wikipedia is shot through with militant parochialism & anachronism in this area, but why not correct these things where it's possible. Grahamchwiki 12:19, 22 September 2007 (UTC)