Artist and director of multimedia films Yi ZhouThe first ever royal mint is being created nonfungible tokensNFTs are not based on the House story. These digital works were made with Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia (Prince of Venice), the House’s non-reigning descendent.

Over 150 years before, the House of Savoy was a major player in the Unification of Italy. Victor Emmanuel II (the House’s monarch at the time) was a symbol of this movement. Together with the Sardinia-Piedmont premier Camillo Benso, known as the Count of Cavour, revolutionary activist Giuseppe Mazzini, and general Giuseppe Garibaldi — the “brain,” “heart,” and “sword” of the Risorgimento, the four men led the creation of a modern, unitary Italian state in 1871. The division of Italy’s peninsula into several independent cities-states, and papal states over the Middle Ages was ended by this.