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Cycling was a sport so important in Italy that it marked a generation, sparked fears of civil war, changed the way Italian was spoken, led to legal reform and even prompted the Pope himself to praise a cyclist, by name, from his balcony in St Peter's
The first history of Italian football to be written in English, Calcio is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the worl
'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the se
An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light Sunday Times Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some people cla
In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia's own wartime experience inside a fa
The 2006 World Cup final between Italy and France was a down-and-dirty game, marred by French superstar Zidane's head-butting of Italian defender Materazzi. But viewers were also exposed to the poetry, force, and excellence of the Italian game as oper
'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the se
*A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A compelling and sobering read' JOHN DICKIE, author of Mafia Republic 'Taut and gripping' TELEGRAPH , BEST BOOKS OF 2025 'Grimly absorbing' FINANCIAL TIMES The explosive story of the terrorist group