1938 - ASILO INFANTILE REGINA MARGHERITA - ASTI
1938 - ASILO INFANTILE REGINA MARGHERITA - ASTI

1938 - ASILO INFANTILE REGINA MARGHERITA - ASTI

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Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna of Savoy (Turin, 20 November 1851 - Bordighera, 4 January 1926), consort of King Umberto I, was the first queen of the Italian wife because the wife of King Vittorio Emanuele II, Maria Adelaide of Austria, was died in 1855, before the proclamation of the Kingdom in 1861.

In the years in which he was at the side of Umberto as hereditary princess and, from 1878, as queen of Italy, he exercised a considerable influence on her husband's choices and a great fascination with the population, making wise use of his public appearances, designed to attract the people with sophisticated clothing and constant affability. According to Ugoberto Alfassio Grimaldi, he was the political figure of a united Italy which, after Giuseppe Garibaldi and Benito Mussolini, aroused "the greatest enthusiasm in the upper classes and in the humble classes".

Cattolica, fiercely attached to the House of Savoy and deeply reactionary, was a convinced nationalist and supported the imperialist policy of Francesco Crispi. The incitement to the repression of popular revolts, as happened in the Milan riots of 1898, although controversial, did not compromise its image, perhaps because it was the first Italian woman to sit on the throne of the newly established country. At court, he managed a weekly cultural circle that earned him the admiration of poets and intellectuals and placed it perhaps, at least in this respect, to the left of many other aristocratic ladies. His dances, moreover, like those in which he participated, often concealed a diplomatic plan, and in his intentions they sought in particular to secure mediation with the "black" aristocracy, which remained loyal to the Vatican after the capture of Rome.

Many were the popular and poetic tributes paid to the noblewoman (from pizza Margherita to the famous carduccian ode to the queen of Italy, written immediately after the Bolognese visit of the sovereigns in November 1878), even in the years following the murder of her husband, when she became queen mother.

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Place of issue
Asti
Year of issue
1938
Nation of issue
Regno d'Italia
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