2016 Programme
Event #39
Alessandro Barbero
The space of war. The Third Italian War of Independence
In 1866 Italy, united five years prior, attacks its centennial enemy, Austria, to complete the eastward leap that had been interrupted seven years before by the Villafranca armistice. This time, Lombardy is the base from which the attack sets off; the enemy is forced into the Quadrilateral; the Italians have both numerical superiority and generals who are confident in victory. But many factors can change the outcome of a war, even when it appears to have already been written: an overly ambitious strategy, rivalries between generals, the atavistic vices of a country where it is considered wise to take on as little responsibility as possible. Aside from the geographical constraints of a space that keeps posing the same dilemmas, so much so that the final battle would be fought in Custoza, exactly where the defining battle of the First War of Independence had been fought, and lost.
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Alessandro Barbero, historian and writer, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Eastern Piedmont and Vercelli. He contributes to the programmes “Passato e presente” and “a.C.d.C.” aired on Rai Storia. Since 2023 he has been the star of the programme “In viaggio con Barbero”, on LA7. In the same year he started for Chora Media “Chiedilo a Barbero”, a podcast in which he answers questions on history sent in by listeners. Among his publications: “Le parole del papa” (2016), “Caporetto” (2017), “Dante” (2020), 2All' arme! All'arme. I priori fanno carne” (2023), published by Laterza; “Gli occhi di Venezia” (2011) and “Le Ateniesi” (2015), published by Mondadori; “Costantino il vincitore” (Salerno, 2016); “Il divano di Istanbul” (2011), “Alabama” (2021), “Poeta al comando” (2022) and “Brick for stone” (2023), published by Sellerio.
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