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Events relating to italy
A brief success in the front line against Austria prompts Italy to declare war on Germany
Ocxtober 24 - a victory at Caporetto enables the Austrian army to penetrate far into northeast Italy
Mussolini founds the Fasci di Combattimento, dedicated to opposing the Socialist party
Mussolini's Fascist party rapidly acquires an aggressive presence, thanks to his gangs of armed thugs in their blackshirt uniforms
The German-speaking inhabitants of South Tirol are incorporated within Italy under the Versailles peace terms
Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV
Mussolini and 35 of his Fascist colleagues win seats in the Italian parliament
Russian author Maxim Gorky goes abroad for medical treatment and lives for the next seven years in Italy
Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI
Mussolini gives orders for armed squads to congregate around Rome, in preparation for a march to seize power in the capital
The Italian king Victor Emmanuel III, alarmed at the prospect of a Fascist march on Rome, asks Mussolini to form a government
A triumphant Mussolini arrives in Rome on the overnight train from Milan to take up his appointment as prime minister
Columns of blackshirts, brought into Rome for the day, parade before Mussolini and the king
Benito Mussolini sets up a Fascist Grand Council as a token assembly to conceal his authoritarian rule
With Mussolini already installed as Il Duce, his party wins 65% of the votes in a general election
The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France
The Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is murdered by Mussolini's Fascists
Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem Pines of Rome has its first performance in Rome
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani
Benito Mussolini arrests opposition politicians, takes control of the press and assumes dictatorial powers in Italy
Italian poet Eugenio Montale publishes his first collection, Bones of the Cuttlefish
Mussolini's treaty with Ahmed Zogu gives Fascist Italy a dominant position in Albania
All non-Fascist political activity is banned in Italy, parliament being replaced with the Fascist Grand Council
D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence
The Lateran Treaty, between the Holy See and the state of Italy, establishes the Vatican City as a free state within the wider nation
