Italian history

Rome

30 September 2011

Celebrating Italy’s 150th anniversary: the country’s youth, history and future

The 150^th anniversary of the unification of Italy provided the Aspen Junior Fellows with a renewed opportunity at their Annual Conference to reflect on and bear witness to the country’s quintessential values, as well as celebrating the group’s tenth anniversary.

Rome

12 October 2011

Culture, politics, the economy: Italy’s national interest, from the country’s unification to the present day

In the beginning, there was the catch-cry of “liberty and independence”: the Risorgimento ideal par excellence, expressing the longing of generations of those aspiring for an Italian nation, who – from the Congress of Vienna to 1861, as well as in the bellicose sequels of the following decade – devoted their thoughts and deeds and blood and hopes to the unification of Italy.