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21st Century
The rise of Giorgia Meloni
“It makes plain the strange way a dictator has retained a positive image in many sectors of Italian society”
Second World War
Mussolini’s willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce
20th Century
How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism
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Medieval
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Medieval
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Roman
The death of Domitian: how aristocrats conspired against the Roman emperor
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The Borgias: everything you wanted to know
Renaissance
Lorenzo de’ Medici, the Magnificent: the astounding life of the ‘delightful tyrant’ of Florence
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“They were on a level with today’s billionaires” – your guide to the Medici: bankers to the Pope, rulers of Florence, patrons of the Renaissance
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