Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.51
Anne Wingenter
{"title":"The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer, New York, Random House, 2022, 621 pp., $37.50 (hardback), ISBN 9780812989946","authors":"Anne Wingenter","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.51","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"912 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135778613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.53
Brian J Griffith
{"title":"A History of Italian Wine: Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries by Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro, Paolo Tedeschi and Luciani Maffi, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, xi + 241 pp., $129.99 (hardback), ISBN 9783031060960","authors":"Brian J Griffith","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.53","url":null,"abstract":"A History of Italian Wine: Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries by Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro, Paolo Tedeschi and Luciani Maffi, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, xi + 241 pp., $129.99 (hardback), ISBN 9783031060960","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134957986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.52
Emanuele Venchi
{"title":"Un nuovo Corpo dello Stato. La polizia femminile in Italia (1961–1981) by Liliosa Azara, Rome, Viella, 2023, 236 pp., €26 (paperback), ISBN 9791254693056","authors":"Emanuele Venchi","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.52","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134958489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.55
Giulia Beatrice
{"title":"I luoghi del fascismo. Memoria, politica, rimozione edited by Giulia Albanese and Lucia Ceci, Rome, Viella, 2022, 353 pp., €32.00 (paperback), ISBN 979-12-5469-190-8","authors":"Giulia Beatrice","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.55","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134960468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.47
Renato Camurri
{"title":"Metamorphosis of an intellectual: Gaetano Salvemini, exile in Europe and the United States","authors":"Renato Camurri","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.47","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Long neglected, Gaetano Salvemini's years of exile (1925–1949) now constitute a crucial period for reconsidering his intellectual and political profile. This article intends first to propose an overall interpretation of Salvemini's exile that considers the years 1919 to 1925 as the culmination of a profound turning point in his life. The central part of the essay is devoted to reconstructing the genesis of Salvemini's relationship with the United States and dwells on the reflections written after his first trip overseas in 1927. In them it is possible to find a clear analysis of the impact of Fascist propaganda on American soil and a definition of the tasks that exiles were called upon to perform in their host countries. Building on these premises, the study rereads Salvemini's years of American exile by focusing on three aspects. Firstly, his great ability to adapt to the American academic world. Secondly, his commitment to the field of research, with works dedicated to the study of Fascism, some centred on a reinterpretation of the concept of democracy and others on the methodology of history. Thirdly, his prodigious activity carried out in the antifascist struggle.</p>","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"92 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.50
Amerigo Caruso
{"title":"La prima guerra italiana. Forze e pratiche di sicurezza contro il brigantaggio nel Mezzogiorno edited by Alessandro Capone, Rome, Viella, 2023, 428 pp., €22.99 (paperback), ISBN 9791254692653.","authors":"Amerigo Caruso","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.50","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"2017 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135011147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.42
Patrizia Sambuco
{"title":"Migration, Voices, and Methodology","authors":"Patrizia Sambuco","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.42","url":null,"abstract":"<p>If the ‘colour line’ was prophetically defined as the issue of the twentieth century, in the twenty-first century the concern of many scholars is with the research methodology that the attention on the colour line has generated. Migration, postcolonial, and blackness studies focusing on Italy have all asked fundamental questions on how to reframe history, memory, and culture. Charles Burdett (2018) has posited that migration and mobility are vital for the repositioning of the discipline of Italian Studies and Modern Languages as a whole. Critics have argued that Italian Black literature is redefining Italian literature (Romeo 2017) and its reception (Patriarca 2018). Alessandra Ciucci's recent monograph <span>The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria</span> (2022) and the volume <span>The Black Mediterranean: Borders, Bodies and Citizenship</span> (2021) edited by the Black Mediterranean Collective contribute to this discussion. Both books offer new approaches to analyse migration and deconstruct Eurocentrism. They both emphasise the migrants’ agency and theorise the researcher's position as a tool for the decolonisation of culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"92 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.45
Federico Trastulli, Laura Mastroianni
{"title":"What's new under the sun? A corpus linguistic analysis of the 2022 Italian election campaign themes in party manifestos","authors":"Federico Trastulli, Laura Mastroianni","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.45","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we introduce an innovative approach to examining campaign themes in Italy, by performing an original corpus linguistic analysis of the party manifestos related to the crucial 2022 election. Through its systematicity and flexibility, our approach allows us to gauge theory-driven propositions using a large amount of so far unexplored textual data. As anticipated, the 2022 Italian party manifestos are characterised by a somewhat balanced configuration of emphasis across a variety of themes, of which some are more controversial and others more widely shared among voters and parties. Further, we also corroborate that parties primarily focus on those themes that historically fit them best, ideologically and in terms of perceived competence. Lastly, salient ‘issues of the day’ are differently emphasised by Italian parties, which particularly avoid devoting considerable attention to the highly sensitive Russian-Ukrainian war.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"26 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.40
Andrea Frangioni
{"title":"Gaetano Salvemini and foreign policy during the First World War: the collaboration with The New Europe","authors":"Andrea Frangioni","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.40","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1958, A.J.P. Taylor's essay <span>The Troublemakers</span> explored the tradition of dissent against power politics in the United Kingdom. Gaetano Salvemini, who had always shown a consistent interest in British political and cultural debates, shared many of the positions put forward by these ‘troublemakers’, such as free trade, the fight against military expenditure, and suspicions regarding standing armies. At the outbreak of the First World War, Salvemini used these arguments to support Italy's involvement in the war against autocratic and militarist central powers. Salvemini's journal <span>L'Unità</span> reported the stances expressed by a ‘troublemaker network’ called the Union of Democratic Control, despite their criticism of the United Kingdom's line of action during the war. In the course of the conflict, Salvemini kept in close contact with a specific group of ‘troublemakers’ around Robert Seton-Watson's journal <span>The New Europe</span>. Salvemini championed <span>The New Europe</span>'s fight for subject nationalities in the Habsburg Empire, though he criticised their support of Yugoslavian claims to Istria, Trieste and Venezia Giulia. This essay will focus on the complex relationship between Salvemini and these British ‘troublemakers’ through the former's writings and correspondence.</p>","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"26 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.46
Renato Camurri, Alice Gussoni
{"title":"Gaetano Salvemini: profile of a transnational intellectual","authors":"Renato Camurri, Alice Gussoni","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.46","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gaetano Salvemini (1873–1957) is one of the most influential intellectuals of Italian and European twentieth-century history. As 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of Salvemini's birth, this special issue of <span>Modern Italy</span> aims to attract the attention of an international readership and contribute to filling the gap in scholarly publications in English, offering a tool to approach Salvemini's intellectual production and biography. We have chosen to focus on four aspects of Salvemini's life that we consider particularly suitable for introducing his personal trajectory and the evolution of his thinking, adopting a transnational approach: his interpretation of the Great War and the Adriatic question; his antifascist exile in Great Britain and, from 1934, in the United States; and the publication of his most important studies on Fascist Italy. The choice of these topics aims to shed light on Salvemini's contacts and stimulating exchanges with foreign scholars, his international experiences, and how these transformed his ideas on Liberal and Fascist Italy.</p>","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"26 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}