Many times, Italy was a political laboratory that influenced the rest of the world. Just think of Mussolini and, more recently, how a gove...

  An image of the "March on Rome" of the Fascist blackshirts that took place a hundred years ago, in October 1922, and that brough...

The victory of the Right in the Italian election of this September has generated worries that Italy could be returning to some form of Fasci...

  My blog titled "Chimeras" explores mainly mythological and literary themes, but the world we call "real" is often int...

  The data are now almost definitive and, as you probably already know, it was a historical triumph for the right-wing parties, and in parti...

  Greek Artillery in 1940, fighting the Italian invasion I have no more information available than the average person connected to the Web, ...

  The "Commedia dell'Arte" was a form of popular theatre, often played without a script. The masked actors would improvise acc...

  An Italian fighter plane (note the "fasci" symbols on the wings) shot down in England in November 1940 during the bombing campai...