Italia Libera, Europe, circa 1860 Rare historical souvenir fan, the double sheet in lithographed paper enhanced with gouache. Two allegories of a unified Italy present the tricolor flag flag, inscribed "Italia Libera", to two soldiers who kneel and lay down their arms. and lay down their arms. The reverse depicts young people in front of barricades raising the Italian flag or arms to defend their ideas. The compositions illustrate the uprisings leading to the unification of Italy or Risorgimento. Mounted in blond horn painted with flowers. Plumes in black-tinted horn with white mother-of-pearl inlays. Bélière. H.t. 27 cm-H.f. 10.8 cm (cuts, accidents and missing parts)