Curated playlist
Modern history of Italy
- Treaty of Campo FormioNapoleon signed the Treaty of Campo Formio in a merchant's house in a small village.
- Stresa FrontBritain's naval deal with Germany enraged Mussolini and helped end the Stresa Front.
- Unification of ItalyItaly became a kingdom in 1861 while Rome, its future capital, still belonged to the pope.
- Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935The Franco-Italian Agreements, often called the Mussolini-Laval Accord, were signed in Rome on the 7th of January 1935. Two men put their names to the pages: French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.…
- Congress of ViennaDefeated France talked its way into the Congress of Vienna's inner circle. Talleyrand scolded the winners for two hours.
- Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacreItaly convicted ten former SS men for the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre, but Germany refused to extradite them.
- Treaty of London (1915)The Treaty of London was signed on the 26th of April 1915, and almost nobody outside a small circle of diplomats was meant to know it existed. On one side of the table stood the United Kingdom, France and Russia. On the other stood Italy.…
- Italian Republic (Napoleonic)Napoleon was president of an Italian republic while also ruling France. It lasted only from 1802 to 1805.
- Italian resistance movementThe Italian resistance movement, known simply as La Resistenza, fought German occupiers and Italian fascist collaborators between 1943 and 1945. Its fighters were known as the partigiani, or partisans. In the last days of April 1945, their…
- Kingdom of ItalyOn the 26th of October 1860, at the town of Teano, the revolutionary general Giuseppe Garibaldi shook the hand of Victor Emmanuel II and hailed him as King of Italy. Garibaldi was a republican. With that gesture he gave up his hopes for an…
- Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul IIIn 1983, Pope John Paul II sat down in a Rome prison with the man who shot him.