2-710-707 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The King of Italy', 1910s, (1919). Portrait of Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) who reigned for nearly 46 years. After the assassination of Umberto I in 1900, the Kingdom of Italy became involved in two world wars. Victor Emmanuel's reign also encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of Italian Fascism. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. V, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]