On 28–29 June 2019, the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan was honnoured to host the annual Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) Postgraduate Summer School, which was attended by more than twenty postgraduate students and other young researchers from a number of Italian and European universities. The participants were able to enrich their own research perspectives during in-depth discussions with both the discussants and the audience. They benefited from two keynote addresses, the first by Emanuela Scarpellini on ‘Italian Food in a Globalized World’, and the second by Massimo Baioni, on ‘The Risorgimento and the Great War in the public discourse of Fascist Italy’, as well as two workshops on digital history, the first run by Fabio Guidali, the second jointly by Mirco Carrattieri and Igor Pizzirusso. The essays collected in this special issue are the result of the elaboration of a number of the papers presented in Milan. Without doubt, Modern Italy is the appropriate forum for their publication. The articles are not intended to be representative of the current state of research in Italian studies but a contribution to it. Many of the papers presented deserved publication, but are not included in this special issue because they fell somewhat outside the topic we have chosen to evaluate, which goes under the title Italians beyond Italy/Italy beyond Italians: Transnational Cultural Strategies and the Construction of Identities. From all these articles, there emerge many questions directly linked to the issue of Italian identity. Among them we would like to underline the common theme of ‘popularity’, both in terms of cultural achievement, whether commercial success, or effective diffusion, or wide engagement with a vision or project, and in terms of the willingness of those who create a cultural product to disseminate it to a wider public. Based on a legacy of cultural practices and symbols, together with physical monuments and tangible structures, cultural identity involves much more than political culture, embracing as it does the whole range of cultural production, whether literature, or architecture, or publicity, even the art of food. The issue of fascist cultural diplomacy brings together the articles by Simone Muraca and Fabio Ferrarini, which between them study the effort to disseminate fascist culture in Portugal and Finland, providing the opportunity for a fruitful comparison between two very different realities. Muraca bases his case study on the reconstruction of the history of Lisbon’s Italian Cultural Institute. By examining published literature, documents from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a number of private archives, the author uses cultural diplomacy in Portugal as an entry point to the broader debate on the subject. The study of Lisbon’s Italian Cultural Institute illuminates both the idiosyncrasies and contradictions of fascist political culture. The organisation

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关于意大利身份的新研究生研究：跨国网络、宣传和流行文化手工艺品

2019 年 6 月 28 日至 29 日，米兰大学历史研究系荣幸举办了一年一度的意大利现代研究协会 (ASMI) 研究生暑期学校，有 20 多名研究生和其他年轻研究人员参加来自意大利和欧洲的多所大学。在与讨论者和听众的深入讨论中，参与者能够丰富自己的研究视角。他们受益于两个主题演讲，第一个是 Emanuela Scarpellini 关于“全球化世界中的意大利食品”，第二个是 Massimo Baioni 关于“意大利法西斯公共话语中的复兴和大战”，以及两个数字历史研讨会，第一次由 Fabio Guidali 主持，第二次由 Mirco Carrattieri 和 Igor Pizzirusso 联合举办。本期特刊中收集的文章是对在米兰发表的多篇论文进行详细阐述的结果。毫无疑问，现代意大利是他们出版的合适论坛。这些文章并不打算代表意大利研究的当前研究状态，而是对其做出贡献。提交的许多论文都值得发表，但没有包括在本期特刊中，因为它们有点超出我们选择评估的主题，标题为意大利以外的意大利/意大利以外的意大利：跨国文化战略和身份的构建. 从所有这些文章中，出现了许多与意大利身份问题直接相关的问题。其中，我们想强调“流行”的共同主题，无论是在文化成就方面，无论是商业上的成功，还是有效的传播，还是对愿景或项目的广泛参与，以及创造文化产品的人将其传播给更广泛公众的意愿。基于文化实践和符号的遗产，连同实体纪念碑和有形结构，文化认同不仅仅涉及政治文化，还包括整个文化生产领域，无论是文学、建筑、还是宣传，甚至艺术的食物。法西斯文化外交问题汇集了 Simone Muraca 和 Fabio Ferrarini 的文章，他们研究了在葡萄牙和芬兰传播法西斯文化的努力，为两种截然不同的现实进行富有成效的比较提供了机会。穆拉卡的案例研究基于里斯本意大利文化学院历史的重建。通过查阅已发表的文献、意大利外交部的文件和一些私人档案，作者将葡萄牙的文化外交作为对该主题进行更广泛辩论的切入点。里斯本意大利文化学院的研究阐明了法西斯政治文化的特质和矛盾。组织机构 里斯本意大利文化学院的研究阐明了法西斯政治文化的特质和矛盾。组织机构 里斯本意大利文化学院的研究阐明了法西斯政治文化的特质和矛盾。组织机构