Curated playlist
Modern history of Italy
- Treaty of Campo FormioThe Treaty of Campo Formio was signed on the 17th of October 1797 in an old house on the main square of a small village west of Udine. Napoleon Bonaparte put his name to the document alongside Count Philipp von Cobenzl, representing the…
- Stresa FrontThe Stresa Front was signed on the 14th of April 1935, in the Italian lakeside town of Stresa, on the banks of Lake Maggiore. French Prime Minister Pierre-Étienne Flandin, accompanied by Pierre Laval, sat with British Prime Minister Ramsay…
- Unification of ItalyThe Unification of Italy, known in Italian as the Risorgimento, a word meaning "rising again", produced a nation from a peninsula that had been divided for more than a thousand years. On the 17th of March 1861, the Italian Parliament…
- Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935Italy entered World War I expecting to gain territory from the defeated German colonial empire. The Treaty of Versailles denied Italy these lands, dividing them instead between France, Japan and the British Empire. Italians received only…
- Congress of ViennaThe Congress of Vienna gathered representatives of virtually every European power in one city at one time - a feat that had never been attempted before on a continental scale. Between September 1814 and June 1815, diplomats, monarchs, and…
- Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacreSant'Anna di Stazzema is a hill village in Tuscany, and on the morning of the 12th of August 1944, it ceased to exist as its inhabitants had known it. German Waffen-SS troops, accompanied by Italian fascist fighters from the Black Brigades…
- Treaty of London (1915)On the 26th of April 1915, four diplomats signed a document in London that would reshape Europe. The United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Italy agreed to keep their pact secret while promising territorial gains to pull Italy into World War…
- Italian Republic (Napoleonic)The Italian Republic existed for just three years, from 1802 to 1805, a northern Italian state with Napoleon Bonaparte as its president and Milan as its capital. It raises a question that sounds almost paradoxical: what does a republic…
- Italian resistance movementIn 1921, a militant group called Arditi del Popolo formed in Italy to fight the violent Blackshirts of Benito Mussolini. This organization emerged after the Italian Socialist Party signed a pacification pact with Mussolini on the 3rd of…
- Kingdom of ItalyOn the 17th of March 1861, Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy in Turin. This event marked the birth of a new state from decades of struggle known as the Risorgimento. The movement to unite the Italian peninsula…
- Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul IIAt 17:17 on the 13th of May 1981, four shots rang out across St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. Pope John Paul II, riding through a crowd of supporters, was struck by two bullets: one tore into his torso, narrowly missing vital organs;…