This sculpture represents the allegory of Italy as a woman with a turreted crown. Begun in the early 1880s the small monument was intended to celebrate the annexation of Venice to Italy in 1866. The date is displayed in one of the small lapislazzuli panels of the octagonal base made in green jasper.
Mainly realized with Volterra chalcedony, Goa agate and Sicilian jasper, it was designed and made by Paolo Ricci, but it was not completed, due to the artist’s death in 1892.