When did Italy's anthem came?

Answer 1

Like all great National Anthems, Italy's was written in the shadow of war and is a patriotic call to arms with music to match.

Its composer was a twenty year-old poet and composer, Goffredo Mameli, who tragically died only two years after it was written. He wasn't well known and this was really his only masterpiece.

Written in 1847, during the first battles for Italian unification ('Il Risorgimento') it was provisionally adopted as the Italian national anthem only in 1946.

Even more surprisingly, it was made the official anthem by law as recently as November 2005.