Great slaughter, triumph leads to festivities.

The new tyrants are probably Mussolini and Hitler, who established a fascist dictatorship in Italy. The 1 and 2 lines about the bombing of Italian cities by the allied forces of England and the United State. Naples is a strategic port from where of the Axis troops went to Africa. Its began to bomb in 1940, in 1942 the bombing intensified. A significant part of Palermo was destroyed by bombing. The city of Syracuse was also bombed. Its inhabitants hid during raids in the ancient catacombs. Sicily was subjected to the most powerful bombing.

The third line, most likely, about the liberation of Italy by the Allied forces in 1945. The number of dead Italians during the dictatorship of Mussolini is estimated at about half a million.

The victory in World War II is the greatest holiday, not only for the victors, but for the defeated party as the mass extermination of people from both warring sides has ceased, and Peace for all has come.

Linkage with other quatrains: 3.65.

Decoding of the number 2.16. 2000-61=1939. If add 1we will get 1940 – thr year of Italy's entry into the war.

Quatrain 5.99[2] World War II in Italy

Milan, Ferrare, Turin & Aquilleye,

Capne Brundis vexez par gent Celtique,

Par le Lyon & phalange aquilee,

Quand Rome aura le chef vieux Britannique.