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The Flag of Italy, also known as Tricolore, is a tricolour containing three vertical bands of green, white, and red (left, or hoist side, to right). Together with the national anthem, La Canzone degli Italiani (better known as Fratelli d'Italia) is the symbol of Italy.
The colours represent the three cardinal virtues:
The Italian flag is similar to the Flag of Ireland, which is green, white and orange, and is the opposite of the Côte d'Ivoire flag, which is red, white and green. It shows also resemblance with the flag of Mexico.
As the case of other flags, also this flag was derived by the flag of France, adopted with the French Revolution of 1789. When, in 1796, the French Army led by Napoleon Bonaparte entered into Italy, both the new republics (Repubblica Transpadana, see FOTW) and the military group attached to French army adopted the flags similar to the Italian tricolour. Probably, the colors have been choosen according to Legione Lombarda flag: it summed Milan city colors (red and white) to the green of Milan Civic Guard uniforms. The same colors were adopted by the Legione Italiana, formed by soldiers coming from Emilia and Romagna.
The first Italian tricolour was adopted on January 7th, 1797Events January 3 The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers. January 7 The parliament of the Repubblica Cisalpina adopts the Italian Tricolore as official flag: here starts the story of the Flag of It, in Reggio EmiliaReggio Emilia is a town of North Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 140,000 inhabitans and is the main comune (municipality) of the Province of Reggio Emilia. The town is also named, more officially, Reggio nell'Emilia The inhabitants of Re, as official flag of the Repubblica Cispadana. It was a horizontal tricolour, with red (top), white and green stripes; in the middle, an emblem composed by a quiver, accolade to a war trophy, with four arrows that symbolized the four provinces forming the Po federation; all within a crown of bay.
The Repubblica Cispadana and the Repubblica Transpadana merged into the Repubblica Cisalpina, which adopted the vertical Italian tricolour without emblem in 1798Events February- October Irish Rebellion of 1798 April 7 The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U. and Spain April 26 France a, even if in a square shape. The flag was mantained until 1802, after the republic was renamed Repubblica Italiana (Italian Republic); in 1802 a new square flag was adopted, with a red field carring a white rhombus and a green square in the middle of the white rhombus (see FOTW).
After Napoleon became emperor, in 1804Events January 1 End of French rule in Haiti June 15 The Twelfth Amendment to the U. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire, and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the Governor of New Hampshire) July 27 The Twelfth Amendment to the U., the Repubblica Italiana was turned into Regno Italico (Italic Kingdom), ruled by Napoleon himself; the flag of the Regno Italico was composed by the Repubblica Italiana flag, with Napoleon emblem on the central green square. This flag was in use until the abdication of Napoleon, in 1814Events January 14 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden January 29 French army of Emperor Napoleon I wins the Battle of Brienne January 31 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. February Congress of Chatillon see George Hamilton Gordo.
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