page_title: LGBT history in Italy
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: LGBT history in Italy / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Napoleon as King of Italy
context_section_description: 1805 - The Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Naples, and the other French client states in Europe adopt the Napoleonic Code, in which homosexuality is not a crime. After the ends of Napoleon and Joachim Murat's reigns and the restoration of preceding monarchies in 1815, the Napoleonic code was gradually abolished and homosexuality again became a crime.
  1859 - Kingdom of Sardinia's articles 420–425 of the penal code promulgated by Victor Emmanuel II, which punished homosexual acts between men (although not women).
  1860 - Crossdressing warrior Giuseppa Bolognara Calcagno's action of heroism against the Bourbon cavalry earned her the Silver Medal of Military Valor.
  1860 - Italy unified, resulting in sodomy laws of Sardinia being spread to the rest of the state except for the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, taking into account the "particular characteristics of those that lived in the south".
  1887 - Zanardelli Code of Giuseppe Zanardelli removes all references to the stigmatization of homosexual people across the entire territory of Italy.
  1889 – In Italy, homosexuality is legalised in the new Penal Code (effective 1890).
caption: The French Emperor Napoleon, under whose rule homosexuality was legal in much of Italy
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