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ISSN: 1353-2944 (Print), 1469-9877 (Online) Editors: Gianluca Fantoni Nottingham Trent University, UK, and Milena Sabato Università del Salento, Italy Founded by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) in 1995.

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Modern Italy, the February issue is out! 7 Research articles, 1 Review article, 1 Context and debate, all Open Access, and 8 Book reviews!
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Modern Italy: Volume 31 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3ZoyNez

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‘Silent loyalty’: armistice and Italian memory in the work of Agostino degli Espinosa | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core ‘Silent loyalty’: armistice and Italian memory in the work of Agostino degli Espinosa

Pleased that my article on Agostino degli Espinosa and the Allied occupation of Italy has come out in the journal @modernitaly.bsky.social. Thanks to @efghilmno.bsky.social for co-editing the special issue in which it will be published.

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The role of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Fascist Italy’s economic strategy towards Franco’s Spain, 1936–43 | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core The role of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Fascist Italy’s economic strategy towards Franco’s Spain, 1936–43

📰 Just published! My latest article in @modernitaly.bsky.social looks at how Mussolini’s regime used the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) to expand Italy’s influence in Francoist Spain between 1936 and 1943. You can read it open access here:
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18.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
The Italian Resistance: 80 years later – a roundtable reflection at LUISS | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core The Italian Resistance: 80 years later – a roundtable reflection at LUISS

Couldn’t attend the May roundtable at LUISS for the launch of Modern Italy’s special issue on the Resistance? No worries — here’s a summary of the event, now published on Modern Italy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Italian Resistance
YouTube video by Domus Mazziniana The Italian Resistance

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Latest issue | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core Modern Italy

The May issue is out! Open Access!
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23.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Challenging race, gender, and class in Fascist and postwar Italy. Biographical notes on Elena Sengal (1911–1962) | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core Challenging race, gender, and class in Fascist and postwar Italy. Biographical notes on Elena Sengal (1911–1962)

💥 Can you imagine what it was like to live in fascist Italy as a Black female academic? Check out the article that Uoldelul Chelati-Dirar and I wrote about Elena Sengal on @modernitaly.bsky.social. It's a sneak preview of a major ongoing project.

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Please note the updated title "Justice and Trials in Modern and Contemporary Italy" of the forthcoming ASMI Annual Conference 2025. Below is the revised CFP. Thank you and please share widely!

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Please see information below for the forthcoming ASMI Annual Conference 2025 "Justice and Trials in Contemporary Italy" to be held in London on 28-29 November 2025. Application deadline: 7 July 2025.
Please share widely with anyone who might be interested.

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In a month, or so...Buon 25 aprile!

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@modernitaly.bsky.socialTurns 30! See the Open Access editorial written by the general editors Gianluca Fantoni and
@milenasabato.bsky.social at the link.
[https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2024.77]

31.03.2025 15:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Modern Italy turns 30! | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core Modern Italy turns 30! - Volume 30 Issue 1

Modern Italy turns 30—see the editorial written by the general editors Gianluca Fantoni and @milenasabato.bsky.social at the link.

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Mussolini’s March on Rome was neither peaceful nor bloodless | Letter Letters: Far from exaggerating the violence of Italian fascism, it could be argued that Joe Wright’s series Mussolini: Son of the Century plays it down, writes John Foot

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The February Issue is out! All research article are Open Access and available as of today on the website of Modern Italy (Cambridge University Press)!

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A raid and a secret tape exposed a Sicilian mafia that is shrunken, whiny and clinging on for survival | John Dickie A historic number of arrests were made, but the days of targeted murder or massive political influence are long gone, says John Dickie, a professor at UCL

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22.02.2025 11:31 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Poster for April 25th event celebrating 80th anniversary of the Italian Day of Liberation: Resisting Silence Unveiling the Legacy of the Italian Resistance 
Email modernitalianseminar@gmail.com for info and to register

Poster for April 25th event celebrating 80th anniversary of the Italian Day of Liberation: Resisting Silence Unveiling the Legacy of the Italian Resistance Email modernitalianseminar@gmail.com for info and to register

Proud to be helping organize this in-person NYC event for a very relevant anniversary!

20.02.2025 16:36 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Latest issue | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core Modern Italy

The latest (printed) issue of @modernitaly.bsky.social features 7 research articles (all open access!) a Contexts and Debates and 9 book reviews!
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Stay tuned for the February Issue, with more of the above!

20.02.2025 09:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Modern Italy | Cambridge Core Modern Italy - Gianluca Fantoni, Milena Sabato

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