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This page is designed to bring to the viewer's attention additions to the Italian History web Page. It is important especially now while the page is under construction.

Items included here:

  • New pages and documents posted
  • Changes to previous documents
  • Other news of interest
Feb, 8, 2000:

New items include:

Feb. 11, 2000:

New items include:

  • Update of Document Project Instructions: linked here, in Information Page, and in Syllabus
  • Links established in Week Five: Click on the Image of Garibaldi for links to:
  • Introduction to Week Five
  • Two versions of the Plombières Agreement
  • The Franco-Sardinian Alliance
  • The Armistice of Villafranca in French (the original) and English (my translation)
  • Garibaldi on the Conquest of Naples
Feb, 14. New Items:
  • Chart depicting sequence of revolutionary events in Italy and Europe in 1848-1849
Feb. 17. New Items:
  • New Map for Week Five: Unification as of March 24, 1860
  • For Week Six, New Introduction and documents Quanta Cura and Syllabus of Errors by Pope Pius IX.
Feb. 18. New Item:
  • For week six: Law of Papal Guarantees, English and Italian versions.
Feb. 22. New items:
  • New Map for Week Five: Unification as of March 17, 1861
  • For Week Six: Quanta Cura in Italian added
  • For Week Six: Syllabus of Errors in Italian added
Mar. 2. New Items:
  • For Week Six: The Triple Alliance
  • For Week Eight: F.T. Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto
  • For Week Eight: Italy Declares Neutrality, 1914
  • For Week Eight: The Treaty of London, April 26, 1915
  • For Week Eight: Salandra Explains Italy's Declaration of War
Mar. 3. New Item 
  • For Week Four: The Statuto (Constitution) of 1848
Mar. 31. New Item
  • For Week Seven: Giolitti's Speech in Parliament, 4 Feb. 1901
April 7. New Item
  • For Week Nine: D'Annunzio's Seizure of Fiume
Schedule change: Because the documents have not been uploaded in a timely manner, the deadline for the second document analysis project is extended until Thursday, April 20.
April 12. New Item
  • For Week Nine: Fascism: Fundamental Ideas
April 13. New Item
  • For Week Nine: Mussolini, "Political and Social Doctrine"
April 15. New Item
  • For Week Nine: Manifesto of The Racist Scientists
April 16. New Items for Week Ten
  • Introduction
  • Mussolini Justifies War Against Ethiopia
  • Anti-Comintern Pact
  • Three Power Pact
  • Pact of Steel
  • Mussolini's Call "To Arms"
April 17. New Items for Week Ten
  • Pact Barring Separate Axis Peace
  • Casablanca Conference
  • Armistice with Italy
INFORMATION REGARDING DOCUMENT PROJECT #2

Using appropriate documents from Weeks Eight through Week Ten, do one of the following: 

1. Explain the origins and evoloution of Mussolini's thought regarding Italy's foreign policy, or

2. Evaluate the motives behind and the success of Mussolini's foreign policy.

Papers should not be longer than five typewritten pages

ALTERNATE PROJECT:

As indicated in class, you may instead of the project indicated above write a paper on one of the following:

1. Identify which of the families in Benevolence and Betrayal you would have preferred to be a member of and why, or

2. Compare and contrast two of the families described in Benevolence and Betrayal.

Papers should not be longer than five typewritten pages