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The Corpo della nobiltà italiana (English: Body of the Italian Nobility), sometimes indicated with the acronym CNI, is a private association established in 1957 in order to protect heraldic and nobility rights of Italian nobles after the republican constitution (in force since 1948) ended the public recognition and safeguard of nobility titles (including the condition of noble without title). == Italian nobility == Italy became a single State only in 1861, when during the Risorgimento the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia – elected for the first time with representatives of all territories already conquered or otherwise annexed – adopted its first law stating: < Sardinian constitution, the so-called Albertine Statute, remained in force for the whole Italy〔At that date, Italy was including all the peninsula except the Latium (present provinces of Viterbo, Rome, Latina and Frosinone, which were the remaining Papal State) and present regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the so-called “Venices”, which were part of the Austrian Empire. The Veneto and the Friuli were annexed in 1866, the Latium in 1870, the Trentino- Alto Adige and the Venezia Giulia in 1918−1919 after World War I, together with Istria, passed afterwards to Yougoslavia in 1945 after World War II.〕 stating that “Nobility titles are maintained to those who have right to them.〔Article 79.〕 Thus unified Italy had several Nobility laws, one for each pre-unitarian State: that is why its College of Arms, called ''Consulta araldica'' (''heraldic council'') was organised in several “regional” commissions, each corresponding – more or less – to a pre-unitarian State in order to apply the latter nobility law. A single nobility law started only in 1926 when the female succession, still valid up to then in the former kingdoms of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia (only the island of Sardinia), was abolished. Titles could be granted to the eldest male (as in Frankish tradition), to all males (as in Langobard tradition) or to all family members; in all cases, all family members are noble, the condition of “Noble” being the title which pertained to all members of families with or without other titles. Members of family where only the eldest male hold titles are indicated with < Official lists of all Italian families and noble people were published in 1921 and 1933. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Corpo della Nobiltà Italiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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