"Too many painters, sculptors and architects have represented Italy in Poland in the past," Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, complained in his diary during a visit to Warsaw in early 1939. "They love in us the poetry of the pen rather than the strength of our arms, in which they still do not completely believe. We must work hard to correct the bad name they have given us for centuries." A few weeks later Italy invaded Albania, and less than two months after that sealed the pact with Nazi Germany that eventually brought Italy into World War II. The...
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