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 | | Central to all Italian life is the tradition of the family as a guiding force and focus of loyalty. |
 | | Many of the great Italian painters, such as Giotto, Fra Angelico, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, and Amedeo Modigliani, are covered in separate articles in the encyclopedia, as are such composers as Antonio Vivaldi, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Gioacchino Rossini, and Giuseppe Verdi. |
 | | Victor Emmanuel remained faithful to the liberal constitution promulgated by his father and retained the tricolour flag, symbol of a free Italy, thus encouraging political refugees from the restored conservative states of the peninsula to find asylum in Sardinia. |
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