Vittorio Orlando was Italy’s Prime Minister at the end of World War One. As Italy had fought on the side of the Allies, Orlando fully expected that Italy would be treated as an equal at Versailles. He was wrong. The other winning leaders – Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson, held Orlando at arms length and Italy’s treatment at Versailles was taken up by the then unknown Mussolini as a sign of how weak the Italian government was.
