The Austrian Chancellor Klemens von Metternich famously wrote in 1847 that “Italy” was no more than “a geographical expression.” He meant of course that “Italy” was not a single, politically unified nation-state; rather, it was nothing more than a group of varying and particular regions located on a peninsula containing peoples of different ethnicities, cultures, political entities, military forces of varying size and strength, and more. In short, “Italy” was not a single, unified nation-state, and therefore it should not be treated in the same way as, say, the United Kingdom or France.