ROBERTO BALZANI Professor of Contemporary History, University of Bologna, Italy ALBERTO M. BANTI Professor of History, University of Pisa, Italy MANUEL BORUTTA Lecturer, Department of History, University of Cologne, Germany TULLIA CATALAN Research Associate, University of Trieste, Italy SIMONETTA CHIAPPINI University of Florence, Italy MARINA D'AMELIA Department of History, The Sapienza University of Rome, Italy PAUL GINSBORG University of Florence, Italy MAURIZIO ISABELLA Senior Lecturer in History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK ADRIAN LYTTELTON Senior Adjunct Professor of European Studies, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy SILVANA PATRIARCA Professor of History, Fordham University, New York City, USA ROS PESMAN Emeritus Professor of History, University of Sydney, Australia DOMINIQUE REILL Assistant Professor of History, University of Miami, Florida, USA LUCY RIALL Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK ARIANNA ARISI ROTA University of Pavia, Italy