Urbinati writes that Gramsci was the “heir of Italian humanism, whose main reference points resided in the early Renaissance”; he was one who envisaged a path to social transformation in politics that ...

Sardinia, well into modern times, had all the trappings of a colony. The highlands of the interior still go by the name “Barbagia,” from the Greek word for barbarians. In the nineteenth century, ...

Writing on the eve of the April 1920 Turin general strike led by factory councils, Gramsci attacks the Italian anarchists in a rather patronising way, claiming that anarchists expressed only empty ...

He has been called one of the most original political thinkers of the 20 th century. Historians point out that “If academic citations and internet references are any guide, he is more influential than ...

Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist theorist, ideologue, philosopher and journalist, has long been associated exclusively with communism and socialism. The late Italian thinker’s ideas have travelled the ...

Last month, I went on a pilgrimage. My nearest and dearest thought they were going to sun themselves by a pool and eat roast suckling pig in a traditional Italian country restaurant, but these were ...

Mary Anastasia O’Grady deserves gratitude for digging up Antonio Gramsci (“The Culture Wars and the Street Wars,” Americas, June 8). It is incomprehensible why his name seems to have vanished into ...

Antonio Gramsci was one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the 20th century, a co-founder of the Communist party of Italy and excoriating critic of the bourgeoisie. So an upmarket 4-star hotel ...

While Cardinal Francis Stafford’s comments about Barak Obama are still making waves, Stafford’s predecessor as head of the Apostolic Penitentiary garnered headlines in Italy this week for statements ...