Ever wondered why Italy didn’t exist as a unified country until 1861? For centuries, Italy was divided, with foreign rulers ...

Joseph T. Durkin, The Early Years of Italian Unification as Seen by an American Diplomat, 1861-1870, The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Oct., 1944), pp. 271-289 ...

Historian Lupo focuses on the Italian branch of the Mafia, following it from its roots in Italy’s 19th-century wars of unification to the anti-Mafia maxi-trial of the 1980s and 1990s, and ...

John Gagné, Counting the Dead: Traditions of Enumeration and the Italian Wars, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Fall 2014), pp. 791-840 ...