This final number ofModern Italy’s twenty-fifth anniversary year is a guest-edited special issue on the theme Italians Beyond Italy/Italy Beyond Italians. It is also the last issue for the journal’s general editors of the past six years, Penelope Morris and Mark Seymour. By way of a farewell ‘editorial’, in this article we cast a look back over the journal’s first quarter-century, from its genesis as an evolution of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy’s annual newsletter, through various metamorphoses, into the established quarterly publication of the present day. In the editorial of the journal’s inaugural issue in November 1995 (see Fig. 1), John Pollard notes that the hope that ASMI would one day have its own journal went right back to the founding of the Association itself in 1982, and to its first chair, Christopher Seton-Watson. Pollard succeeded Denis Mack Smith as the third Chair of ASMI in 1992, and three years later, he and his editorial team – John Dickie and Simon Parker – launched the journal’s first issue, based on the highly successful 1994 annual ASMI conference on ‘The Italian Crisis’. The foundation of the journal was also, as Pollard noted, a response to a particular moment in the study of Italy and the history of the nation itself:

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现代意大利，1995-2020：该杂志的第一个四分之一世纪

现代意大利成立 25 周年的最后一个数字是客座编辑的特刊，主题是意大利之外的意大利人/意大利之外的意大利人。这也是该杂志过去六年的总编辑佩内洛普·莫里斯 (Penelope Morris) 和马克·西摩 (Mark Seymour) 的最后一期。通过告别“社论”，在这篇文章中，我们回顾了该杂志的第一个 25 世纪，从它的起源作为现代意大利研究协会年度通讯的演变，通过各种变形，到既定的今天的季刊。在 1995 年 11 月杂志创刊号的社论中（见图 1），约翰波拉德指出，对 ASMI 有朝一日拥有自己的期刊的希望可以追溯到 1982 年协会本身的成立，以及它的第一个椅子，克里斯托弗·塞顿-沃森。Pollard 于 1992 年接替 Denis Mack Smith 成为 ASMI 的第三任主席，三年后，他和他的编辑团队——John Dickie 和 Simon Parker——根据 1994 年非常成功的 ASMI 年度会议“意大利危机'。正如波拉德所指出的，该杂志的成立也是对意大利研究和国家历史的特定时刻的回应：