"Giornale di Sicilia" was founded in 1860, immediately following the Expedition of the Thousand headed by Giuseppe Garibaldi; it was first published on 7 June of that year under the name "Giornale Officiale di Sicilia" with Girolamo Ardizzone as its first editor-in-chief.The paper played a significant role in nationalizing the Italian rural women in Sicily at the beginning of the 1900s.