he memory of the Italian civil war, echoed in the conflict between the far left and the far right in the 1970s, is once again a matter of controversy in Italy, where the past still weighs heavily ...

ROME – In keeping with the law of unintended consequences, Pope Francis’s recent invocation of a “white flag,” designed to promote peace between Russia and Ukraine, seems instead to have ...

A few years earlier, Italy had been gripped by the Social War between Rome and its Italian allies, while in 82 B.C. Sulla had just returned with his legions from Asia to confront his enemies in ...