Stella d'Italia

It is the oldest national symbol of Italy, since it dates back to Graeco-Roman mythology[2] when Venus, associated with the West as an evening star, was adopted to identify the Italian peninsula.

[2] In 1947, the Stella d'Italia was inserted at the center of the emblem of Italy, which was designed by Paolo Paschetto and which is the iconic symbol identifying the Italian State.

The merger of the two traditions associated the star with Italy, the center of the Roman Empire and never considered a province, having a special administrative status, being divided into the Augustan regions.

[10] The symbolic meaning of Caesar's star as the precious tricolor star-shaped jewel, studded with green emeralds, white pearls and red rubies, preserved at the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, dates back to the 14th century, is therefore still uncertain.

One meaning could be that it was built for the condottiere Cangrande I della Scala, lord of Verona in which Dante Alighieri saw the new Caesar capable of unifying Italy.

[11] In 1603, in the second edition of his treatise Iconologia, Cesare Ripa associated the symbol with the Italia turrita, and created a modern version of Italy's allegorical personification: a woman with a star on top of a towered crown, therefore supplied with the Corona muralis and the Stella Veneris.

[3] The reigning house even tried to get possession of it, suggesting that it was the Stella Sabauda ("Savoys' star"), a family heraldic pattern that is not mentioned in any historical document preceding the unification of Italy.

[17] The ceremony had its epilogue in Rome with the solemn burial at the Altare della Patria on 4 November 1921 on the occasion of National Unity and Armed Forces Day.