Italy

Mazzini’s ‘Young Italy’

The situation facing the forces of liberalism and nationalism in Italy in 1830 was apparently more hopeless than that facing...

30/06/2016

Aristocratic factionalism, popular rebellions and the relationship between Italian and German culture all combined to ensure the long-term use of...

14/05/2014

The way in which armies and garrisons were recruited during the Hundred Years War ensured that when peace broke out...

29/10/2013

Five Norman brothers, sons of Tancred of Hauteville, carved out a principality in the Byzantine Empire’s territory in Southern Italy...

10/06/2012

The Legacy of the Italian Resistance Philip Cooke Palgrave Macmillan 263pp £52.25 Between 1943 and 1945 thousands of Italian men...

18/04/2012

A Dominican friar and prophet Girolamo Savonarola, living between 1452-1498, is considered the forerunner of the Reformation. A fasting, praying...

29/10/2011