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 ...

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 ...

When King Victor Emmanuel III turned his back on Italy’s German ally on Sept. 8, 1943, throwing the country into chaos, anti-fascists took to organizing to repel both the Nazis and the newly ...

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.