At that time, the tycoon had presided over the longest-serving post-war Italian government.
He later became one of the founding fathers of the post-war Italian republic, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
Post-war Italian designers, such as Lucio Fontana, who was also a painter and sculptor, battered, hammered and gouged out sheets of thinnest gold to make luminous and humorous works.
Shot predominantly in black and white, with spot colour for a Jewish child's red coat the film's unique identifying mark it recalls the tradition of post-war Italian neo-realism and the even older photographs of Roman Vishniac of Jewish life in Poland before the Nazis.
Actually, the Green Bank concept has been around for nearly a century, and began, in an unlikely commune in the Italian Alps during World War I amongst a group of artists that included Herman Hesse.
The company's early history is the tale of three friends who met in the Italian air corps during World War I and hatched a plan to build motorcycles.
After the end of the 2nd world war, the Italian Government undertook an extensive campaign against illiteracy in southern Italy - statistics from the 1930's indicated 40% of illiteracy on Sicily, 46% in Lucania and 48% in Calabria.
"I believe that we are in the midst of another world war, " the cardinal told Italian newspapers.
Italian troops didn't fight in the war, but went to Iraq for the peacekeeping mission in early summer.
The slow progress of the war brought great hardships to the Italian people, particularly those caught near the front-line.
Before the first world war, the products of the Italian masters were among the preferred collectibles of the great and the good of Europe.
Acevedo was initially taken to a prison camp known as Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany, where thousands of American, French, Italian and Russian soldiers were held as prisoners of war.
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As many as a quarter of its people died, many of disease and starvation in concentration camps, during three decades of Italian invasion and colonial rule that ended with the second world war.
He was an Italian army captain, drowned in the Nile in the first world war, who spoke 74 languages, including Latin.
Japanese Americans were herded like cattle into internment camps during World War II (as were smaller numbers of German, Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian Americans).
During the second world war, when most Tunisian nationalists supported the German-Italian axis, Mr Bourguiba declined to reject the French, even when in 1942 the Germans let him out of his French prison.
Whatever his faults, Mr Berlusconi has brought a degree of stability to Italian government, which, since the restoration of democracy after the second world war, has been prone to weak and unstable coalitions.
With Delno and Ida working almost all the time, informal supervision of the kids fell to the Filipino war bride who lived across the street and the sharp-eyed Italian grandmothers who had raised their own children on South Elmwood Place.
No Italian government has managed to stay in office for an entire five-year term since World War II.
In his luggage on his way home after the war he carried, for future study, the brain of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who had been killed by partisans.
The best bit of modern Italian history had to wait until 1945, when Alcide de Gasperi began the country's post-war boom.
Amos Luzzatto, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said the magistrate had shown "a loss of memory" with regard to World War II atrocities.
These Renaissance-inspired murals, paintings and carvings were created in 1945 by Franco de Bello and six companions Italian prisoners held at the U.S. Army's Camp Hereford near the end of World War II.
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