Paolo Bufalini’s Notebook by Luisa Ammirati

“…Paolo Bufalini’s Notebook (from here on PBN) is a critical edition of the personal notebook that the Italian politician and intellectual Paolo Bufalini held from 1981 to 1991. …”
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The second eastern crisis (1875-1878): Echoes, volunteers and Italian interests by Guida Francesco

“…The actions of Balkan insurgents during Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878 were closely followed by Giuseppe Garibaldi and his supporters as well as by the Italian politicians and writers that were a part Mazzini’s school of thought. …”
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Roberto Saviano, czyli rzecz o kalaniu własnego gniazda i jego konsekwencjach by Weronika Korzeniecka

“…The aim of this paper is to investigate what drives his uncompromising pursuit for truth, the strategies he uses to achieve this aim, and the response to his approach, coming from Italian politicians, intellectuals, ordinary people, and international general public. …”
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La Pirofregata corazzata Re d’Italia by Aldo Antonicelli

“…The article also dwells upon the reasons why the Italian Prime Minister and Minister of the Navy count Camillo Benso di Cavour decided to order two ironclad and why he ordered them to an American shipyard, not without some opposition from Italian politicians, naval officers and shipbuilding engineers. …”
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Pinocchio, metafora della politica italiana by Stefano Pivato

“…The cat and the fox have found their real-life counterparts in various well-known pairs of Italian politicians, starting with Nenni and Togliatti. …”
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Singing Nuns and Soft Power: British Diplomats as Music Tourists in Seicento Venice by Alana Mailes

“…Drawing on seventeenth-century diplomatic sources, I detail how both English and Northern Italian politicians made strategic use of sacred music-making—particularly vocal performance in local nunneries—to influence their dealings with foreign states, as well as how English diplomats in the Italian peninsula surveilled Catholic musical devotions in their covert correspondences to communicate information about international affairs. …”
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A Corpus-Assisted Contrastive Investigation of Migration-related Terms in British and Italian Political Discourse by Maria Ivana Lorenzetti

“…Combining the theoretical background of Critical Discourse Studies (van Dijk 2015a, 2015b; van Leeuwen 2008; Wodak 2015a) with a corpus-assisted methodology (van Diik 2015a; 2015b), this paper contrastively investigates the discursive representation of migration and migrant people by leading British (Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn) and Italian politicians (Matteo Salvini, Matteo Renzi) in the years 2016-2018, starting from the examination of the collocational profile of such migration-related terms as immigration, immigrant, migrant, refugee and asylum seeker. …”
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Italy-2018: The Triumph of Populism and Prospects of Exit from the Political Crisis by Sergey V. Biryukov, Alexander M. Barsukov

“…According to the authors, it is political populism as a possible platform for social and political transformations, along with a number of possible risks, that contains a positive potential associated with the possibility of overcoming ideological divisions, corporate selfishness of Italian politicians and parties, as well as alienation in the relations of the power and society. …”
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Il disaccordo nelle pagine Facebook dei politici della Svizzera italiana by Angela Ferrari, Filippo Pecorari

“…The paper presents a conversational, textual, argumentative, and linguistic analysis of the expression of disagreement on the Facebook pages of four Swiss-Italian politicians. The analysis is divided into two parts, according to the target against which disagreement is directed. …”
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