The devotion to the House of Savoy was one of the features in the process of identity construction of the Aosta Valley’s elites before, during and after the completion of national unity. Between history and myth, the Savoy dynasty marked, in fact, the passage from the Savoyard stage of history to the Italian one. Either in literature or in the political and intellectual reflection, we find a constant reminder to the continuity of the sovereignty of the House of Savoy over the Duchy of Aosta, as well as the theory of the «free and voluntary dedication» of the Aosta Valley to the Savoy dynasty affirmed by Jean-Baptiste de Tillier in the 18th century and taken by politicians and writers from the mid-19th century. The attachment to the House ...