Montezemolo comes from old Piedmontese aristocracy and his family tree is heavy with generals, cardinals and surgeons.

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The D'Onofrio plan aims to build on the regional pride of the Lombards, Sicilians, Piedmontese, Apulians and so on.

ECONOMIST: Italy

On March 17, 1861, Italy became a single state under the Piedmontese crown.

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More recently, in 2009, the top Piedmontese producer La Spinetta began making Vermentino in Tuscany, too, under the name Casanova della Spinetta.

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In the 1850s he came to favour the Piedmontese monarchy, but his detestation of the papacy continued, proving more enduring than his republicanism.

ECONOMIST: Garibaldi

The same is true of Barolo, the Piedmontese wine prized above all by wine snobs for its power and finesse two seemingly opposite terms that manage to converge in the same wine.

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Exploiting wars between France and Austria to acquire the rich northern part of the country, the Piedmontese king was faced with a startling fait accompli when the revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, initially leading an expedition of only a thousand men, quite unexpectedly conquered the whole of Sicily and southern Italy.

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