Ricerc@Sapienza

One of the themes at the heart of the collective debate in the years following the war was the question of responsibility. In Italy a publicly accepted version of past events was soon pieced together. This showed the desire within society and the political parties to remove Fascism as a significant component of the national identity. Cinema was to become one of the points of reference in the fabrication of this public narration. On the screen among 1945 and mid-Fifties a clear picture emerges of a fundamentally guilt-free Italy.

Croce initially supported Mussolini's Fascist government that took power in 1922. However, the assassination of the socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti by Fascists, in June 1924, shook Croce's support for Mussolini. In May 1925, Croce was one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals which had been written by Croce himself. However, in June of the previous year, he had voted in the Senate in support of the Mussolini government.

Relations between Italy and Hungary have been constant and complex over time and of particular importance in the interwar period. The Treaty of Trianon represented an epoch-making moment for Hungarian history, a trauma with long and dangerous consequences, which characterized the country’s choices in the following two decades. An analysis of Italian foreign policy in the transition period from Liberalism to Fascism can show whether and how elements of continuity were present in the definition of Italian foreign policy towards Hungary.

Relations between Italy and Hungary have been constant and complex over time and of particular importance in the interwar period. The Treaty of Trianon represented an epoch-making moment for Hungarian history, a trauma with long and dangerous consequences, which characterized the country’s choices in the following two decades. An analysis of Italian foreign policy in the transition period from Liberalism to Fascism can show whether and how elements of continuity were present in the definition of Italian foreign policy towards Hungary.

This book is a biography of Galeazzo Ciano, based on a rich unpublished documentation coming from Italian, Vatican, British, French, Japanese, German and US archives and from the memoirs of international political personalities who met the the last Foreign Minister of fascist Italy. The book is a choral work that does not analyse only the private and public life of "the son-in-law of the fascist regime".

The story of «Nuova Rivista Storica», one of the oldest Italian historical magazines, during the Great War, the Postwar period and the rise and fall of the Fascist regime.

This article offers a close reading of the initiatives following the racial laws promoted by the Institute of
Roman Studies, an institution operating in synergy with the political culture and imperial ambitions of the fascist regime
by supporting and influencing its rhetoric of romanità and the use of symbols and myths of the “Third Rome”. Refusing
the interpretation of racial laws as a temporary phase of Italian history completely alien to the country’s cultural context,

Questo articolo analizza la continuità della politica estera italiana prima e dopo la caduta del regime liberale, dall'ascesa del Mussolini al potere alla seconda guerra italo-etiopica.

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The day of February 13th, 1921, a barefoot little girl came out of one of Trastevere’s alleys and walked slowly along King’s Avenue.