ABSTRACTS This article analyses three great anniversaries in twentieth-century Italian history: 1911 and 1961, the fiftieth anniversary and the centenary of unification, and 1932, the fiftieth ...

MANILA, Philippines - It was March 17, 1861 when Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Piedmont-Sardinia, proclaimed the birth of the new Italian Kingdom in Turin, which became its first capital (since then, ...

The terrace of Relais San Maurizio, where I am the guest of Michele Chiarlo and family, overlooks a mélange of straight lines, curves, solids, and vaporous outlines that rises and dips toward the ...

Giuseppe Garibaldi, who gave his name to the biscuit as well as to a fashionable blouse, was Italy's favourite independence hero. After unification in 1861, every Italian town had its Piazza Garibaldi ...

On 17 March our neighbouring country, Italy, will commemorate the 162nd anniversary since its proclamation as a united nation. This was the result of a series of socio-political movements and ...

Studi Storici was founded in 1959 as a quarterly review of history, published by the Istituto Gramsci. The journal publishes historical essays and historiographical debates from ancient to ...

Scott Jeffrey is the composer and writer of the musical United We Stand, a musical about the unification of Italy playing at the Cockpit Theatre on December 9 th. Below he talks to the Consulate about ...