According to Phone Just, Milan is the center of the Lombardy region, located in northern Italy. It is the largest city in Italy in terms of the number of inhabitants after Rome, as well as one of the most important economic and industrial centers of the country. Milan was founded […]

It was under the banner of comedians that Italian cinema went through a less than excellent phase in its history, the early Eighties, characterized by the scarce activity or the disappearance of the great directors of the recent past. Of course, over time we still appreciate Massimo Troisi’s debut, that Ricomincio da […]

In the course of a decade marked by lead and the strategy of tension, by massacres, by new student movements and by the historical compromise, by terrorism and by the tragedy of statesman Aldo Moro, the so-called political cinema, a new Italian sub-genre characterized by from the link between the […]

Genres and authors Comedy, after the great Camerinian season of the Thirties and some scattered neorealistic examples, made a strong comeback at the beginning of the Fifties with Luciano Emmer, formerly the author of important films on the history of art, who with Una Domenica d’agosto (1950) drew the lively portrait […]

During the Easter holidays of 1897, a French photographer, Henri Le Lieure, opened a screening room in Rome with his Italian partner Luigi Topi, thus starting, after the first screenings which took place the previous year in Milan and Turin, the diffusion of cinema. in Italy. In the space of […]

The crisis, therefore, came in the early 1920s. But at the end of the new decade the arrival of the sound film imposed itself – with The song of love (1930) by Gennaro Righelli – and the halls were filled again also for the numerous projections of The jazz singer […]

The varied season of Neorealism Despite the harsh war climate, the early 1940s also saw the development of an artistic and cultural debate, which continued those of the previous decade and at the beginning of which the term Neorealism was used (v.) According to remzfamily.com, an authoritative critic such as GC Castello […]

Great significance has the strong success reported in Italy Northern League in the 1992 elections by the Northern League of U. Bossi (born in 1991 from the aggregation of local autonomist movements), which launched a federalist reform of the state. The electoral consultations also see the formation of a cross-party […]

The Moro affair marks the beginning of the terrorist crisis, hit by more effective repressive action, but also the end of the government’s experience of national solidarity: while the armed party is raging in the country, the PCI leaves the majority causing the fall of the Andreotti government. The early […]

The center-left is the formula of agreement between the DC and the PSI for a reform program capable of correcting new and old imbalances in Italian society. The first center-left government was launched in 1962, after an attempt by the right-wing forces to stop the socialists from entering the government […]

The political elections of April 18, 1948 were marked by the confrontation of the cold war. Funded by the USA, supported by the Church, flanked by a network of civic committees and Catholic Action, the DC achieves a clear victory, obtaining 48.5% of the votes against 31% of the Social […]

During the so-called ’45 days’ government, Badoglio conducts secret negotiations with the Allies which lead to the signing of an armistice which, announced on 8 September 1943, causes the break-up of the army, left without operational instructions. On 9 September the king and Badoglio leave Rome and flee to Brindisi. […]

Between 1925 and 1926 Mussolini proceeded through the enactment of a series of laws to transform the liberal state into a dictatorial regime. Party pluralism is abolished; Parliament is emptied of all power; the freedoms of the press, of association, of organization are abolished. In 1928 the Chamber passed a […]

According to elaineqho.com, Italy emerges from the conflict victorious on the military level and on that of industrial mobilization, but in the throes of a serious political and social crisis. Unlike in France and Great Britain, the popular masses did not feel the war as a necessary event for the […]

In the summer of 1914, when the great war broke out, the Italy, given the defensive nature of the Triple Alliance and the failure by the Austrians to comply with the commitment to a preliminary consultation with the allies in the event of a crisis, declared its neutrality (3 August), […]

Between 1896 and 1914 the Italy knows a phase of industrial take-off. This leap, confined to the north-western regions, accentuates the gap between an Italy rapidly changing northern region, and an Italy Southern Italy effectively excluded from any economic and social development. Looking at the experiences of the more advanced […]

1876-1887 According to countryvv.com, the government program of the Left foresees: defense of the secular state and fight against clericalism; compulsory elementary education; administrative decentralization; reduction and redistribution of the tax burden in favor of the southern regions. When the Minghetti ministry falls on a question of secondary importance, the […]

1860-1861 Taking advantage of a turn in the politics of Napoleon III, who now considers it politically harmful to forcibly repress the movement in Italy central, Cavour decides to annex the insurgent regions, which express through plebiscites their desire for union with the Kingdom of Sardinia (with the same procedure, […]

Between 1846 and 1848 some favorable conditions seem to mature for the development of a new liberal phase in the governments of the peninsula. In the Papal State, the election of Pius IX (1846-78) is accompanied by a series of measures (amnesty for political crimes, greater freedom of the press, […]

During the last decades the mobility of people within the national territory and across borders, as well as the traffic of goods, within the country and with foreign countries, have not stopped their expansion. Against this trend, there have been no structural changes in the network of communication routes, with […]

In the years following 1948, the activity of many of the Italian composers that the Encyclopedia continued has already reported, from the representatives of the 1880 generation, Gian Francesco Malipiero and Ildebrando Pizzetti, to those of the 1890 generation, such as Giorgio Federico Ghedini and Lodovico Rocca, to those of the 1900 […]