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Just around the corner from the turtle fountain, a little way up Via Caetani on the right, is a memorial to the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro , whose ... Read more..Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »
The murders of the immensely respected Falcone and Borsellino might well come to be seen as marking a fault-line in the political history of modern Italy, and the late 1980s ... Read more..Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »
A popular mandate declared Italy a republic in 1946, and Alcide de Gasperi's Democrazia Cristiana (DC) party formed a government. He remained in power until 1953, sustained by a succession ... Read more..Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »
A specific Italian history is hard to identify. Italy wasn't formally a united country until 1861, and the history of the peninsula after the Romans is more one of warring ... Read more..