The regiment is named for the city of Cosenza and part of the Italian Army's infantry arm.

The regiment consisted of three battalions, which each fielded four fusilier companies and one machine gun section.

[2][3] The brigade soon departed for the Italian Front, where it fought in May 1917 in the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo on the Karst plateau, and then in August of the same year in the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo in the area of Korita na Krasu.

In October 1918 the brigade fought in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto in the area of San Dona di Piave.

One day earlier, on 14 November 1975, the 48th Infantry Regiment "Ferrara" had been disbanded, and the next day the regiment's III Battalion in Potenza was reduced to a detachment of the 244th Infantry Battalion "Cosenza".

[2][4] On 1 February 1977 the detachment in Potenza became an autonomous unit and was renamed 91st Infantry Battalion "Lucania".