That Terrible Thing Called Jealousy
Love and possession during the Italian economic miracle.
Italy
How Venice Lost Its Art
The arrival of Napoleon’s troops in Venice in 1797 instigated one of the biggest plunders in the history of art.
Forgetting Fascism
Never fully exorcised, the memory of Italy’s fascist past is fading.
The Map: Rome, 1942
The War Office’s map of cultural treasures in Rome, 1942.
Pain behind the Pleasure: the Italian Social Republic
Salò was Mussolini’s German-backed experiment in ‘real Fascism’ and fine living. Italians find it hard to come to terms with its legacy.
Fascist Architecture
Though many writers, film-makers and other artists found it difficult to work in Fascist Italy, modernist architecture flourished under the less than watchful gaze of Mussolini.
Postcard from... Rome
Food and drink have a habit of landing Rome’s leaders in trouble.
‘Bugsy’ Siegel and the plot to assassinate Göring
Larry Gragg investigates the evidence behind ‘Bugsy’ Siegel’s claim that he planned to kill the high-ranking Nazi in 1939.
The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank
During the fifteenth century the Medici banking house in Florence ‘almost passed belief’ in power and influence.
Warburg Postwar
Having been moved to London from Nazi Germany, the esteemed library of Renaissance culture played a key role in restoring links between international scholars after the Second World War.