AGATHIAS ON ITALY, ITALIANS AND THE GOTHIC WAR by Dallas DeForest

“…I position Agathias as a valuable, insightful source for sixth-century Italian history and cultural change at the time. …”
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Odessity: in Search of Transnational Odessa (or “Odessa the best city in the world: All about Odessa and a great many jokes”) by Joachim Schlör

“…One main element of this mythical or legendary representation is the multi-cultural and transnational character of the city: Not only does Odessa have a Greek, an Armenian, a Jewish, a French and an Italian history, in addition to the more obvious Russian, Ukrainian, Soviet, and post-Soviet narratives, it also finds itself in more than just one place – wherever “Odessity” as a state of mind, a memory, a literary image is being celebrated and constructed.…”
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Il percorso politico di Giorgio Levi Della Vida, dall'impresa libica al rifiuto del giuramento, 1911-1931 - The political journey of Giorgio Levi Della Vida, from the Italian invas... by Bruna Soravia

“…This paper aims at retracing the political journey of the orientalist Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1886-1967), born in a distinguished family of Italian assimilated Jews, in the course of two crucial decades in early 20th century Italian history. Through his personal memoirs and less known archival documents, it also aims at presenting Levi Della Vida’s peculiar perspective on the events he was part of, while underlining his unbroken commitment to the principles of intellectual and academic freedom.…”
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The Italian Geopolitical Code by Giovanbattista Varricchio

“…The work takes into consideration relevant events in Italian history and contemporary geopolitical orientation as reported into official strategic documents. …”
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Beyond Italian Exceptionalism? The ‘Critical’ Eighteenth Legislature by Simona Piattoni, Marco Valbruzzi

“… Italy’s eighteenth legislative term stands out as particularly idiosyncratic throughout Italian history. Over the course of this term, three governments with varying political orientations came into power, relying on parliamentary votes that shifted between the right, left, and center. …”
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Renzo De Felice in njegovo razumevanje italijanskega fašizma by Matic Batič

“…The discussion concludes that De Felice’s work, despite some contentious points, is currently considered as indispensable for all modern researchers of this period of Italian history.…”

Beyond Italian Exceptionalism? The ‘Critical’ Eighteenth Legislature by Simona Piattoni, Marco Valbruzzi

“… Italy’s eighteenth legislative term stands out as particularly idiosyncratic throughout Italian history. Over the course of this term, three governments with varying political orientations came into power, relying on parliamentary votes that shifted between the right, left, and center. …”
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CONTEXTO HISTÓRICO E FORMAÇÃO DO CÂNONE: A PRESENÇA DE DANTE, MAQUIAVEL E FOSCOLO NA ‘STORIA DELLA LETTERATURA ITALIANA’ DE FRANCESCO DE SANCTIS by Karine Simoni

“…This study aims to find out how De Sanctis esamines the life and the work of these three important names of italian history and literature: Dante (1265-1321), Maquiavel (1469-1527) and Foscolo (1778-1827).…”
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THE ITALIAN GEOPOLITICAL CODE by Giovanbattista Varricchio

“…The work takes into consideration relevant events in Italian history and contemporary geopolitical orientation as reported into offi cial strategic documents. …”
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(Not) Making “Hexternologous”. Fertilization The Italian ART Law and its paradoxes by Laura Lucia Parolin, Ingrid Metzler, Alexander Schuster

“…The three contributors of this conversation analyse different profiles of the law: the contradictions between Catholic moral order and a scientific rationality which is not fully aware of its heteronormativity (Parolin); the macropolitics of information along Italian history and the moral economy surrounding fertilization techniques (Metzler); Law 40 in the context of the EU landscape of reproductive rights (Schuster). …”
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Essere esseri umani. Il coraggio di Mariasilvia Spolato by Giovanni FOCARDI, Nicolò DA LIO, Adriano MANSI

“…We have two different aims with this paper: 1) to describe more accurately and comprehensively all the phases of Spolato’s life, on the basis of a wide-ranging and different kind of sources (from archives, press and oral testimonies), cross-referencing them with the social and cultural transformations of Italian history; 2) to reflect on the narratives that arose after the news of her disappearance.…”
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Beyond Italian Exceptionalism? The ‘Critical’ Eighteenth Legislature by Simona Piattoni, Marco Valbruzzi

“… Italy’s eighteenth legislative term stands out as particularly idiosyncratic throughout Italian history. Over the course of this term, three governments with varying political orientations came into power, relying on parliamentary votes that shifted between the right, left, and center. …”
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Fallen comrades? Anthropological analysis of human remains from the siege of Turin, 1706 by Martina Mercinelli, Martin J. Smith

“…At this time the city was besieged during the War of the Spanish Succession in a hard-fought battle that resulted in unexpected triumph for the Piedmontese, a victory that marked a fundamental turning point in Italian history. The current study assesses the strength of evidence linking the excavated individuals to the siege and assesses their possible role in the battle through consideration of their biological profiles, patterns of pathology and the presence of traumatic injuries. …”

An Overview on Archival Inventories in the Web by Federico Valacchi

“…Finally, there are some thematic informative systems such as Archivi del Novecento, which aim is to build a network of archives for Italian history. The offer is wide; in order to make an exhaustive control on such a varied situation, the creation of a federate system of local and thematic resources, interoperable with SIUSA and the newborn SAN, is necessary. …”
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Sulle rappresentazioni di Benito Mussolini e del fascismo in Sibilla Aleramo by Serena Mercuri

“…Fascism, indeed, welcomes and promotes the idea of a female universe made up of good wives and excellent mothers of the Fascist faith, identities created according to the dictates of a canon that is not entirely new but which was subject to a framing that was unprecedented in Italian history and specific to the socio-political system. …”
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La donna mostro. L’"aging" nella commedia all’italiana fra generi e genere by Ruggero Ragonese

“…Sacred monsters: this is how most of the Italian media and public call actors Gassman, Mastroianni, Tognazzi, Manfredi, Sordi, to mark their legendary status in the Italian history of cinema. Comedy in particular is strongly associated with, and often defined by, the presence of these immensely popular male stars. …”
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Interpretarea fascismului la Antonio Gramsci și Palmiro Togliatti by Mihaela CIOBANU, Guido LIGUORI

“…For Gramsci, the phenomenon of fascism is part of the peculiarity of Italian history. As early as 1921 he stated that ‘against the advance of the working class there will be a coalition of all reactionary elements from fascists to popular to socialists’. …”
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Books for Italian Schools Abroad (1890-1943). Editorial and Bibliographic Profiles by Lorenzo Luatti

“…The textbooks were designed, edited and printed, on state (primary schools) or private (secondary schools) impulse, during a period of over half a century of Italian history (1890-1943). This period marks the birth and end of this editorial experience. …”
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An Overview on Archival Inventories in the Web by Federico Valacchi

“…Finally, there are some thematic informative systems such as Archivi del Novecento, which aim is to build a network of archives for Italian history. The offer is wide; in order to make an exhaustive control on such a varied situation, the creation of a federate system of local and thematic resources, interoperable with SIUSA and the newborn SAN, is necessary. …”
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Looking sideways to Italy in contemporary world literature by Bond, E

“…Analyzing three contemporary works of world literature partially set in Italy (Daša Drndić’s Trieste, Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, and Pajtim Statovci’s Crossing), it suggests that we might consider broadening out the canon of transnational Italian literature to include works neither written by Italians nor written in Italian, but that offer sideways insight into Italian history and culture from elsewhere.…”