Renato Moro

• Managing Director at Roma Tre University

In questo numero: Giovanni Aldobrandini, Il buono e il cattivo tempo. Joseph Chamberlain e il progetto riformista e imperialista nell'Inghilterra tardovittoriana (1789-1915) (Renato Moro) Fabrizio Rudi, Soglie inquiete. L'Italia e la Serbia all'inizio del Novecento (1904-1912) (Pierpaolo Naso) Paolo Zanini, Il "pericolo protestante". Chiesa e catto...

Today, nobody would consider George L. Mosse as a historian of Christianity. He is well known primarily for his works on the history of fascism, nationalism and racism. However, not only in the first phase of his career, as a scholar of early modern Europe, he was precisely a historian of Christianity, but his contribution to the understanding of C...

This article analyses Luisa Mangoni's research work on twentieth-century Catholic culture, and in particular on Don Giuseppe De Luca and the journal "Il Frontespizio", underlining how it decisively contributed both to the debate on Italian Catholicisms relationship with modernity and to that on the existence of a Fascist culture (and Catholicisms r...

In the 19th and 20th Century, while civil wars embodied, in an extreme way, the fundamental characters of war itself, peace movements developed as a new phenomenon, rooted in the perception of the concrete possibility of abolishing war. The article examines the reaction of peace movements to the American War of Secession and the Spanish Civil War a...

George Mosse passed away just 13 years ago. It seems like just yesterday that he was here with us—that we read and listened to his papers and presentations and reflected on the new horizons for research that they revealed. Every day the absolute importance of Mosse for historians becomes more and more evident. Just a decade later, not only does tod...

Se ha cumplido el centenario del nacimiento de Giuseppe Dossetti (1913–1996), político, vicesecretario (1945–1951) de la Democracia Cristiana italiana, líder de su ala izquierda en el ayuntamiento de Bolonia hasta 1958, fue más tarde sacerdote y fundador de una comunidad monástica. El texto examina su experiencia individual, poniéndola en contraste...

This paper examines the individual experience of Dossetti and compares it with the personal paths of a generation of Catholics during the transition from fascism to democracy. After a brief reflection on the historical issue of the new generation of Catholics, the article analyzes the features of the formation of this generation and of the passage...

Le ricostruzioni sintetiche della storia di un paese rappresentano uno specchio del lavoro degli storici. Il saggio č dedicato ad un'analisi di ciň che le storie dell'Italia contemporanea dicono di Aldo Moro, dalla fine degli anni Sessanta fino a oggi, e ripercorre buona parte della discussione sulla storia e i problemi della democrazia italiana de...

This article focuses on the early years of the cold war in Italy in the form of an analysis of the Catholic press from 1947 to the eve of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. In so doing it attempts to answer key questions for Italian Catholicism relating to peace building that arose from total war in the age of mass democracy.L'église catholique, l...

The main purpose of this article is to suggest a few brief reflections on the relationship between religion and politics in the time of secularisation, from the point of view offered by the sacralisation of politics. I will start by drawing three examples from the history of contemporary Catholicism which show such a strong connection between relig...