By the end of World War I, cruisers were the largest class of large armored artillery ships of the Italian Navy. After the withdrawal from service in 1918-1919 of a part of armored and armored cruisers that survived during the war and at the same time finally lost its combat value, that class was practically not divided into any subclasses (we deliberately overlook the three armored cruisers that remained with the Italians at that time, which were used mainly as training ships).