Kingdom of the Two Sicilies--History--1816-1861

found: Spagnoletti, A. Storia del Regno delle Due Sicilie, c1997:p. 11 (restored to the Neapolitan throne, Ferdinand [IV of Naples] in 1815 gained another kingdom, Sicily, where he already ruled as a constitutional sovereign and transformed himself into the almost absolute king of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; in the text of the law of of Dec. 8, 1816, the definition of the Neapolitan state as Kingdom of the Two Sicilies appeared for the first time)

found: E-mail from Prof. John A. Davis of the Univ. of Conn., 2006(the correct dates for the (Bourbon) Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily would be 1734-1816, when the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816-1860) was formally created; however, the title Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was in use much earlier as well)

found: Columbia gaz., 1998:v. 3, p. 3520, under Two Sicilies, Kingdom of the (Two Sicilies was used in the Middle Ages to mean the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples; Ferdinand the IV of Naples (Ferdinand III of Sicily) officially merged the 2 kingdoms in 1816 and called himself Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies)

found: Remsen, H.R. Collapse of the Kingdom of Naples, 1899, via WWW, Apr. 7, 2008:p. 371-372 (on Mar. 17, 1861, the Italian Parliament proclaimed Victor Emmanuel II. King of Italy; the Monarchy of the Two Sicilies being thus officially merged in the Kingdom of United Italy)