Who was the greatest Italian to ever live?

>Evidently he is not a Frenchman, nor a man of the eighteenth century; he belongs to another race and another epoch. We detect in him, at the first glance, the foreigner, the Italian, and something more, apart and beyond these, surpassing all similitude or analogy.-Italian he was through blood and lineage; first, through his paternal family, which is Tuscan, and which we can follow down from the twelfth century, at Florence, then at San Miniato; next at Sarzana, a small, backward, remote town in the state of Genoa, where, from father to son, it vegetates obscurely in provincial isolation, through a long line of notaries and municipal syndics. "My origin," says Napoleon himself, "has made all Italians regard me as a compatriot.... When the question of the marriage of my sister Pauline with Prince Borghése came up there was but one voice in Rome and in Tuscany, in that family, and with all its connections: 'It will do,' said all of them, 'it's amongst ourselves, it is one of our own families...'" When the Pope later hesitated about coming to Paris to crown Napoleon, "the Italian party in the Conclave prevailed against the Austrian party by supporting political arguments with the following slight tribute to national amour propre: 'After all we are imposing an Italian family on the barbarians, to govern them. We are revenging ourselves on the Gauls.'" Significant words, which will one day throw light upon the depths of the Italian nature, the eldest daughter of modern civilization, imbued with her right of primogeniture, persisting in her grudge against the transalpines, the rancorous inheritor of Roman pride and of antique patriotism.
>-Hippolyte Taine

>Dr. Henry: “The beauty of his delicate Italian features was of the highest kind; whilst the exquisite serenity of their expression was in the most striking contrast with the recollections of his great actions, impetuous character, and turbulent life”

cope

>That's on top of the fact that Italy didn't even exist at the time

Is this butthurt gayuette for real?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)

BTW Corsica was part of the Kingdom of Italy for nearly 1000 years.

wrong again
>Italy is “only a geographical expression,” said Count Metternich, Europe's leading statesman in 1814.

keep coping dude

he was italian because he had italian origin

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-sovereign_monarchy
Meaningless

Everyone considers 1861 as the year when Italy was created

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse. This isn't just a case of genetic origins either. He was born and raised as Napoleone di Buonaparte. His native language was Corsican and Italian. He only began to learn French at 10 spoke it with an foreign accent his entire life. He loathed France and was a Corsican nationalist until the revolution happened. Napoleon was always the opportunist.

Black person they were from places with lang d'oïl you moronic french frick, are the Black folk and nafris born in your country french too?

Never heard of those names. Ergo I don't give a frick. Was he born in France,yes or no? If that's the case then he was french. Hell he even wanted to be buried in Paris,this was part of his last will.

>my hamster was born in an acquarium
>he is therefore a fish
Cope

based

I know I just think it would be funny