“Sardinia,” Vito said as I slid into the chair beside him.
“He got what he wanted,” I added. I followed up our conversation of the previous day with research in the library. The period of rule under Savoy was very short, only a handful of years really – unless one counts the decades and maybe even centuries that members of the Savoy dynasty worked behind the scenes in all matters Sicilian.
“Sì, he got Sardinia.”
Sì“It sounds like Victor Amadeus did a lot for the country, though.”
Vito shrugged his shoulders.
“He raised taxes, too, and put his friends in charge of large enterprises. Perhaps the most insulting to the Sicilians was when the king abandoned local financial policies and institutions and installed systems that he had relied on in Europe. He brought Gian Giacomo Fontana, his
