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Aldo Moro

A Potted Guide to Italian Presidents

Judith Harris

It now appears certain that Giorgio Napolitano will resign as of Jan. 14, at the top of Italy’s current political agenda is election of his successor. Before this happens,...

The President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano: From Eurocommunism to the Unification of Italy

Letizia Airos

Giorgio Napolitano will be in New York to celebrate the unification of Italy. We reflect on his meeting with President Obama last year and his first visit to the U.S. in 1978,...

Power Plays, Italian Style

George De Stefano

Paolo Sorrentino's portrait of Giulio Andreotti is an investigation of post-WWII Italian politics

Terrorism. President Napolitano Takes a Pause for Remembrance

Maria Rita Latto

May 9th is Italy's Memorial Day, instated only last year in commemoration of the victims of the terrorist attacks that plagued Italy in the 1970s. President Giorgio Napolitano...

Aldo Moro Anniversary: Between Memory and Art

Judith Harris

A disquieting installation on view in a chic new Roman art gallery on Via Somalia evokes the myriad mysteries still surrounding the kidnapping and assassination of the president...

Aldo Moro Anniversary: Time To Tell the Truth

Judith Harris

On May 9, 1978, the President of the Christian Democratic party was found in Rome, murdered by the Red Brigates. New revelations today emerge to challenge official versions of...

Of Emperors, Murders and the Ides of March: the Ghosts that Haunt Italy's Elections

Judith Harris

On the complicated and dark political history shaping Italy's coming elections next month.

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