In real life, she was the fourth and final Littorio-class battleship but ended up unfinished due to repeated evacuations between bases and Italy's eventual armistice with the Allies. According to declassified and published Italian archival documents, she was to be converted into an aircraft carrier that would also carry V-1 missiles. Captured by the Germans, she was used as a target ship before sustaining further damage from Allied air raids. She was later towed to Venice for scrapping by the end of the 1940s.
