The Italian Resistance offered an entire generation the chance to make radical choices, to decide not only on their deeds but ...

Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them ...

The late head of the Catholic Church worldwide, Pope Francis was laid to rest today, 26 April 2025, at the Basilica di Santa ...

Italy today celebrates the 80th anniversary of its liberation. After two-and-a-half years, Italian partisans got rid of both the Nazi German former ally that had occupied half the country and ...

The memoir – a first by a sitting pope – underscores why he spoke with so much empathy on issues like climate change and the ...

It was a bold piece of political theatre. Nevertheless, fearing civil war — and the communists more than the black shirts — King Victor Emmanuel III caved in without a shot being fired.

It tells the story of the sinking of “the Italian Titanic”, the SS Principessa Mafalda (named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy). Pope Francis ...