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Books March 12, 2024

These Thoughts of Mine

These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….

Essays September 19, 2023

The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet

This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter, sonnets are sometimes structured into stanzas of an octet and a sestet or of…

Books in Italian July 18, 2023

Thanks Goodness I Am Here

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41.  Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021  In July 1939, Mario and Clara…

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Books March 30, 2012

Mussolini and Fascism

        John P. Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, Princeton University Press, 1972 Mark Weber (Institute for Historical Review), America’s Changing View of Mussolini and…

Books March 29, 2012

The Holocaust and Italian Culture: 1944-2010

        Robert Gordon, The Holocaust and Italian Culture: 1944-2010, Stanford University Press, 2012 The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar…

Books March 29, 2012

The Enemy of the New Man

        Lorenzo Benadusi, The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 In this first in-depth historical study of homosexuality in…

Books March 29, 2012

A European Memory?

        Magorzata Pakier, Bo Stråth, A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance, Berghahn Books, 2010 “As the most comprehensive scholarly venture to use the memory…

Books March 29, 2012

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy

        Michael Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2010 Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to…

Books March 29, 2012

Fascism and the Police

        Jonathan Dunnage, The Italian Police and the Rise of Fascism, Cambridge University Press, 1998 Based on research using official documents, this account of the role of…