Today the second video on the history of contemporary Italy has been released, and the theme of this video is colonialism in the kingdom of Italy. of Ethiopia in 1935 and Italian occupation of the Balkans during the Second World War. We will return to the next videos on the Etipoia campaign of 35
About 30 years have passed since Claudio Pavone cleared the issue of the Italian civil war in 1943-1945, using for the first time the term civil war instead of the traditional war of liberation or war of resistance, and observing that, in that conflict made in italy , beyond the various political
In recent days there has been a lot of talk about Cesare Battisti , a criminal who after many years of inaction has finally been handed over to Italian justice, but there is a big problem around his name, it is a case (not very accidental) of homonymy that is pushing many Italians these days to
Petra, the city carved into the rock, a magical and sublime place in the middle of the Jordanian desert, one of the seven wonders of the world and UNESCO World Heritage since December 6, 1985. Cited in the Qumram manuscripts , with the Semitic name of Reqem or Raqmu (La Variopinta),
The French Revolution is considered by many, together with the American Revolution, the cornerstone on which the contemporary age rests, the point of origin for the long nineteenth century that would have ended only with the outbreak of the First World War and the undisputed protagonist of this epoc
The 54-year-old reign of Pharaoh Thutmosis III it began under the regency of Hatshepsut , his aunt and stepmother, remembered as the first female pharaoh in history; the only daughter of Thutmosis I and his Great Royal Wife, she was trained by him to reign. In the inscriptions Hatshepsut is n
In July 1976 the PSI was in crisis:the party was in a state of fibrillation, the base was disheartened, the cadres lost, the leaders disputed and, in the last elections, it had dropped to 9%, well 25 percentage points behind the PCI. In this situation there was fear for the very survival of the part
This week I decided to interview Fabio De Ninno, author of a book published a few weeks ago Fascisti sul Mare (Laterza, 2017). It has been some years since there were no publications on the Italian armed forces during fascism. What new sources have you been able to use? In Italy, especially fo
I decided to interview Prof. Guido Formigoni who teaches Contemporary History at the IULM University of Milan, author of several books:Christian Democracy and the Western Alliance (1996), History of international politics in the contemporary age (new ed. 2006), Italy of Catholics (2010) and Aldo Mor
When we commonly speak of a march on Rome we mean that particular military expedition that took place in the last days of October 1922 with which the fascists moved towards the capital. In fact, the expression March on Rome can refer to a much broader event, in preparation for the final phase which
The Turkish term Kadınlar Saltanatı (Sultanate of women) indicates a period of the Ottoman Empire that lasted about 130 years, between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in which the women of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Empire exerted extraordinary political influence on matters of sta
Todays interview is with Professor Luigi Musella, author of a biography on Craxi (Salerno Editrice. 2007) and teaches Contemporary History at the University of Naples Federico II. Craxi as a politician was one of the main figures in the history of republican Italy, however, there are few biograph
Today I will tell you a story, the story of Nobuto Fujita , a Japanese pilot who in 1942 managed to carry out two bombings and two air raids on United States soil, managing to hit California and Oregon, but lets go in order. In September 1942, in the heart of the Second World War , Japan launc
Oliver Sacks in the book published by Adelphi in 2009 - almost autobiographical - The minds eye highlights its own perceptual disturbance: prosopagnosia. Nonetheless, it is the inability to recognize peoples faces and sometimes even everyday objects or places, in the most serious cases. This ina
According to a Egyptian legend , the god Seth he had torn out the left eye of the god Horus and had torn him to pieces, but the god Thoth he managed to reassemble it thanks to his magic and his own magic allowed him to steal a fragment of the eye without, however, the absence of him undermin
With the term prehistory we mean a period of about two million years that goes from the appearance of the human species on Earth until the moment when man invents writing and begins to leave written records, this happens about five thousand five hundred years ago, in Mesopotamia . Among the
The Sumerian people was one of the first people in history to use writing, and you know what we know about it, they were the first people ever to invent writing, thus marking the end of prehistory and the beginning of History . There is not much information on the origins of the Sumerian peo
I decided to interview Prof. Paolo Pombeni, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna, author of several books:Giuseppe Dossetti. The political adventure of a Christian reformer (Il Mulino, 2013), The politics of Catholics. From the Risorgimento to today (New City, 2015), The co
Around the sixth millennium BC various populations began to migrate from their territories of origin to settle along the rivers, and along the coasts. The Nile Valley , in north-eastern Africa, was a very fertile territory rich in water, vegetation and animals and around 5,000 BC . Several popu
The Phoenician civilization or Canaanite, if we refer to the archaic phase of this population, it has Semitic origins, and has a common root to the neighboring Jewish, Babylonian and Assyrian peoples. These peoples settle in the region between Lebanon, Israel and part of Syria and Jordan
Egyptian women. Their anti-wrinkles consisted of preparations based on natural ingredients skin care , both of the face and of the body, was the basis of the beauty of the ancient Egyptians. They, like all of the rest, tried to keep it smooth, soft and compact for as long as possible. To s
This is not an absurd question at all, at least in the light of Marcin Wolniewiczs findings. A historian of the Polish Academy of Science proves that racial arguments were very important in Polish independence propaganda. Also those referring to the Aryan race. During the uprising, they were pro
Every child knows that Jan Długosz wrote about the great battle fought on July 15, 1410 between the villages of Grunwald and Tannenberg. It might therefore seem that the theme of this historical clash has become a permanent element in the memory of Poles. Nothing could be more wrong. Not so long ago
When St. Francis of Assisi was urged to consult the Popes medics in his illness, to say:The Lord made medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not despise them. According to this idea, Mikołaj from Poland treated his patients, looking for remedies not in the sky or in the patients moods, but