# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/umberto-i-of-italy
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:51:17.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/umberto-i-of-italy"
name: "Umberto I of Italy"
slug: "umberto-i-of-italy"
description: "A monarch shot dead by an anarchist who'd sailed from New Jersey to settle a score. Umberto I's twenty-two-year reign built Italy's African empire and Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, but it ended in Monza after troops opened fire on crowds protesting bread prices."
tagline: "King of Italy (1844-1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fratelli_Vianelli_(Giuseppe_e_Luigi%2C_flor._1860-1890_ca)_-_VE_-_Umberto_I_di_Savoia_1.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1844-03-14"
deathDate: "1900-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             15.65844474998887
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Son of Victor Emmanuel II, Umberto commanded Sardinian forces in the wars that unified Italy before ascending the throne in 1878. He pushed colonial expansion into Eritrea and Somalia, formalized the Triple Alliance in 1882, and backed military solutions at home and abroad. The gambit in Ethiopia collapsed at Adwa in 1896. Two years later, demonstrations over food costs in Milan were crushed by artillery — the Bava Beccaris massacre — and Umberto publicly decorated the general responsible. Socialist opposition and economic crisis mounted. On 29 July 1900, Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-American anarchist, shot him three times outside a gymnastics event in Monza. His son Victor Emmanuel III inherited the throne and the backlash.