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3.52 p.m. 23 March 1944. Rosario Bentivegna (photo) is standing next to a street cleaner's handcart in via Rasella, central Rome, nervously smoking a pipe. The handcart contains a powerful

From tomorrow, I will be doing a thread following Giuseppe Garibaldi's "Spedizione dei Mille" (Expedition of the Thousand) to conquer Sicily and southern Italy (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies), as

23 November 1993, 12-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo is horse-riding, his great passion, at stables in Altofonte in the province of Palermo. During a break, a group of men in police

23 November 1993, 12-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo is horse-riding, his great passion, at stables in Altofonte in the province of Palermo. During a break, a group of men in police

31st October 1926, in Bologna Mussolini narrowly escapes assassination by Anteo Zamboni, aged just 15. Mussolini has already survived three attempts on his life in the last year but this

At 1.30 a.m., in the night between 13 & 14 September 1943, the various units of Italian soldiers (12,000 in all), mostly conscripts of the Acqui Division, occupying the Greek

Short thread on events of 7 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly

Italian democracy is often ridiculed for its instability but in 2020 Italy will mark 40th anniversary of numerous dramatic events that make you marvel at its resilience to a violent

2 August 1980 saw the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history. A bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded in the waiting room of Bologna Station, causing the partial collapse

This thread, over the next few days, will follow events surrounding the flight, capture and execution of Mussolini starting from 25th April 1945 (Photo: last known photo of Mussolini alive,

Today, German daily @welt published an opinion piece entitled "Mrs Merkel, stand firm" opposing use of Coronabonds as "in Italy, the mafia is just waiting for more money to rain