A look at the legacies of Alcide De Gasperi and Palmiro Togliatti, the two key figures of post-WWII Italy who held opposing ...

The closing ceremony of the diocesan phase of the beatification process of Servant of God Alcide De Gasperi (1881–1954), an Italian politician recognized as one of the “fathers of Europe,” was held ...

The council, chaired by Mayor Mastella, has given the green light to naming the new municipal headquarters after Alcide De Gasperi, which on Viale Principe di Napoli will host social services and ...

A leader shows his true mettle in difficult circumstances. On August 10, 1946, Alcide De Gasperi, the Prime Minister of a defeated Italy, faced the victorious Allied Powers who were offering a peace ...

The economist and social scientist Wilhelm Röpke, considered by many as one of the fathers of the “Social Market Economy” and one of the interpreters of that economic model that has most influenced ...

Italian politician, Alcide De Gasperi (1881 – 1954) in Bologna June 1951. (Credit: Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.) Listen ROME – Seventy years to the day after the signing of the ...

Today we launch our new Top 5, this time presenting the five most representative Italian politicians, as selected by our listeners. Historian Antonio Maria Orecchia talks to us about one of the ...

(See Cover) Across the ancient reaches of Italy—a sunny, beautiful and melancholy land—the clamor spread. DE GASPERI is A LIAR! screamed a black headline in Rome’s L’Unita, the Communist daily. “Our ...

It was Rome’s hottest day of the summer, and a dismal day for Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Monarchists and neo-Fascists stuck stonily to their decision to throw all their votes against him. His long ...