Cesare Francesco Ricotti Magnani was an Italian general who served as Minister of War of the Kingdom of Italy.
Cesare Ricotti-Magnani
The Capture of Rome on 20 September 1870 was the final event of the unification of Italy (Risorgimento), marking both the final defeat of the Papal States under Pope Pius IX and the unification of most of the Italian Peninsula under the Kingdom of Italy, a constitutional monarchy.
Breach of Porta Pia, by Carlo Ademollo (1880)
Pope Pius IX blesses his troops for the last time, at St. Peter's Square, 25 April 1870
Bersaglieri at the capture of Porta Pia, by Michele Cammarano (1871)
The breach in the Aurelian Walls (right), near Porta Pia (left), opened by Italian artillery fire during the Capture of Rome, in a contemporary photograph