Vittoria (Vit-toh-ree-ah) is one of those words you recognize in all languages. Victory in English, victoire in French, victoria in Spanish, never mind where you come from in the world, its sound and meaning is understood. 

The first to use it were the Romans: they used to say victoria, a noun that came from the verb vincere, to win, the very  same we still use in Italian today. Its modern spelling began getting popular around the 14th century, or so the experts say.