AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
The peasants of southern Italy believed 'La Talia' referred to the name of a woman whom they thought Victor Emmanuel II had promised to marry.
This fact appears in the textbook (Chapter 1, Nationalism in Europe) to illustrate how ordinary people understood nationalist ideas in concrete, personal terms rather than abstract political concepts. Examiners expect the specific detail about the woman Victor Emmanuel II supposedly promised to marry — don't just say "a woman's name."