Italy
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Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as w
Etruscan fresco in the Monterozzi necropolis, 5th century BC
The Colosseum, widely considered one of the greatest works of architecture and engineering of ancient history
Marco Polo, 13th-century explorer
Leonardo da Vinci, quintessential Renaissance man, in a self-portrait (c. 1512)
Fascist Italy
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The Kingdom of Italy was governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister transforming the country into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Fascists crushe
The pope leaving the Vatican in 1929
Mussolini and Vatican delegation prior to signing the Lateran Treaty
Propaganda poster of Mussolini
Mussolini in Milan, 1930