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Carlo Alberto was born October 1798 in Turin at Palazzo Carignano, a place typical for Risorgimento. The prince comes from the family Carignano Savoy, owner of the palace. A troublesome and complicated figure, alternating liberal leaps and wary afterthoughts, Carlo Alberto (“Italian Hamlet” according to Carducci) has always been considered a contradictory and tormented personality. The ambiguity of his temper can partly be explained with an heterogeneous cultural make-up: his mother frequented in Paris the drawing room of Madame de Stael as well as the illuminist intellectual élites; his [Read more...]
Carlo Alberto was born October 1798 in Turin at Palazzo Carignano, a place typical for Risorgimento. The prince comes from the family Carignano Savoy, owner of the palace.
A troublesome and complicated figure, alternating liberal leaps and wary afterthoughts, Carlo Alberto (“Italian Hamlet” according to Carducci) has always been considered a contradictory and tormented personality. The ambiguity of his temper can partly be explained with an heterogeneous cultural make-up: his mother frequented in Paris the drawing room of Madame de Stael as well as the illuminist intellectual élites; his tutor was Calvinist; back in Piedmont, he was affected by the Catholic culture. In the meanwhile three brothers of the main limb of the Savoy succeeded to the throne: Carlo Emanuele IV, Vittorio Emanuele I and Carlo Felice. Unfortunately none of the three had male heirs. Such a circumstance gave way to Carlo Alberto to the throne of Sardinia.
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