sentences:  However, this legislation did not apply to the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, taking into account the ""particular characteristics of those that lived in the south"".This bizarre situation, where homosexuality was illegal in one part of the kingdom, but legal in another, was only reconciled in 1889, with the promulgation of the Zanardelli Code which abolished all differences in treatment between homosexual and heterosexual relations across the entire territory of Italy.This Penal Code became effective in 1890, and there have since been no laws against private, adult and consensual homosexual relations.