Less than a month after Italy entered World War II, its navy suffered a devastating blow at Taranto, prompting Mussolini to ...

Or again: 'United around the tricolor'. And so on. A crucial speech was the one in Vittorio Veneto in 2019. 'I want to remember - said Mattarella - the words of Teresio Olivelli, a partisan beaten ...

Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s ...

Yet, Mussolini preceded Hitler. Il Duce, as Mussolini was known, was Hitler’s inspiration. The term “fascist” itself originated around the time of Mussolini’s founding in 1914 of the Fasci ...

On April 28, 1945, the dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by members of the Italian resistance, along with his mistress Clara Petacci. The next day, their bodies were dumped in a Milan square ...

The story of the theft of Benito Mussolini's body is, in many ways, emblematic. But it is also an uncomfortable story, and for this reason, removed from collective memory. Journalist and writer ...

On April 28, 1945, the dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by members of the Italian resistance, along with his mistress Clara Petacci. The next day, their bodies were dumped in a Milan square and ...

World leaders, cardinals and at least 250,000 of the faithful gathered in the Vatican on Saturday morning to bid farewell to ...

Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Separate Rooms reaches bookshops this month after several decades out of print. Originally published in Italian in 1989, the novel first appeared in English in 1992. That ...

Pallbearers stand next to the hearse carrying the coffin of late Pope Francis near the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome on Saturday. (Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images) 0 min Pope Francis has ...