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The election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female prime minister
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”

Benito Mussolini
Second World War

Mussolini’s willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce

Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s
20th Century

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

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Roman

Q&A What are the Ides of March?

A portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340-1400), who modern literary scholars credit for turning Valentine into the patron of love. Chaucer was a major influencer in his day – after him, everyone began calling their beloved “Valentine” and writing love poems on 14 February, says Lisa Bitel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Roman

Who was Saint Valentine? A history of the figure’s origins

Richard Bosworth answers listener questions on the authoritarian ideology that emerged in Italy a century ago. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

Fascism: everything you wanted to know

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Medieval

How did pasta come to Europe and when did it first become established in Italy?

An illustration from The Travels of Marco Polo, showing a teenage Marco on the deck of a ship sailing away from Venice
Medieval

Why are Marco Polo’s travels so famous?

Sophie Hay answers listener questions on the Roman city that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79. (Image by Getty Images)
Roman

Pompeii: everything you wanted to know

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Roman

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Roman women

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Roman

The death of Domitian: how aristocrats conspired against the Roman emperor

A portrait of a member of the Borgias family
Renaissance

The Borgias: everything you wanted to know 

Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici
Renaissance

Lorenzo de’ Medici, the Magnificent: the astounding life of the ‘delightful tyrant’ of Florence

'The last Day of Pompeii', 1833. Briullov, Karl Pavlovich (1799-1852). Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Roman

Pompeii: a remarkable window into ancient Roman life

'The Journey of the Magi' by Benozzo Gozzoli, commissioned by Piero the Gouty for the Palazzo Medici Riccardi. It features his son Lorenzo, who would become known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, as one of the three kings
Renaissance

“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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