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Journalist Cope (Power Hungry) spins a thrilling saga of four young women of the Italian resistance. In interweaving ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

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D’Annunzio may not be a household name around the world but he left a big mark on the city and was given a state funeral by Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. And in 1920, the Italian ...

The Italian star of the Sky series, launching soon in the U.K., discusses the burden of transforming into the infamous fascist, the joy of working with Joe Wright, and that "make Italy great again" ...

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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How a groundbreaking Mussolini drama examines the birth of fascism - IN FOCUS: Next month an epic eight-part biopic of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini airs on Sky. Craig McLean visits the set in ...

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