My key handouts for Secular Rome were a chronology, an account of the Lateran Pacts, and "the Syllabus of Errors" denounced by Pope Pius IX. You can easily find the latter two items via a simple search on the web. The Chronology follows:
Rome #3: Modern Secular Rome (1870 ff.)
Under Rome #2, a movement began to overthrow papal rule and to unite Italy on such modern political principles as the rights of the individual to life, liberty, and private property. Called the Risorgimento, and lasting from 1815 to1871, this movement succeeded especially owing to the military leadership of Garibaldi and to the political leadership of Cavour and Mazzini. The modern “Kingdom of Italy” was born March 17, 1861, but it was an incomplete Italy: Rome was kept from joining until 1870, when the Pope could no longer hold out against Italian nationalist troops.
A. Constitutional Monarchy (1870-1921)
a. Victor Emmanuel II, of Savoy, 1861-1878
b. Umberto I: 1878-1900
c. Victor Emmanuel III: 1900-1946
i. [World War I: 1914-1918]
ii. [Bolshevik Revolution: 1917]
iii. [World War II: 1939-1945]
d. Umberto II: 1946 (then the monarchy abolished)
B. Fascism under Mussolini (1922-1943)
a. The March on Rome: October 27-29, 1922
b. The Lateran Pact: 1929
c. Invasion of Abyssinia: 1935
d. Enrico Fermi wins Nobel Prize for physics, 1938
e. WW II
i. Overthrow of Mussolini: August 1943
ii. Four battles of Monte Cassino: Spring 1944
iii. The Liberation of Rome: June 5, 1944
iv. D-Day: June 6, 1944
v. Mussolini executed: April 1945
C. The Italian Republic (1946-Present)
a. The First Republic: 1947-1992 -- a member of NATO that flirts with Communism
i. Treaty of Rome: 1957
ii. Aldo Moro kidnapped by Red Brigades, 3/16/1978; found shot in May, on via Caetani
iii. Arrests of major mafia leaders: 1993, 2006, et cetera
b. The Second Republic: 1992-
i. Tangentopoli and Mani Pulite: 1992-1994
ii. More corruption and talk of a freer economy
1. Berlusconi and “Forza Italia”
2. Umberto Bossi and “Lega Nord”
3. Gianfranco Fini and “Alleanza Nazionale”
4. Achille Occhetto and the “PCI”
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