The Bourbon kingdom encompassing southern Italy and Sicily, one of the largest pre-unification Italian states, dissolved when Garibaldi's expedition united it with the Kingdom of Italy.
Conquered by Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand beginning May 1860, then formally annexed to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia following a plebiscite in October 1860, and absorbed into the newly proclaimed Kingdom of Italy on 17 March 1861.
The most recent comprehensive English-language treatment of the Two Sicilies kingdom from Bourbon consolidation to dissolution.
A scholarly study of the royal residences of Bourbon Naples, evoking the court culture of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in its final decades.
Set during the 1860 fall of the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to Garibaldi, this is the canonical novel of that kingdom's final years.