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Grazie a un ampio esame della documentazione italiana, il volume approfondisce i motivi dell’atteggiamento ostile del nostro Paese nei confronti del Patto balcanico, ampliando la consueta visione storiografica che ne fa solo una variabile dipendente dalla vicenda triestina. Interessanti sono in quest’ottica i tentativi italiani di influire su Atene e Ankara e le analisi politiche e strategiche sull’effettiva capacità difensiva del Patto, dalla frontiera orientale italiana alla Tracia e agli Stretti.

The terms of the lively debate on federalism still going on in Italy are presented. Improving efficiency through fiscal federalism is certainly considered, but the dominant theme is perhaps on purely political grounds. Even if the transition process from unitary to federal state has actually started, it is not yet clear what sort of fiscal federalism is being pursued. Co-operative fiscal federalism could be an important vehicle through which northern people’s demand for local autonomy could be made compatible with the less developed economy of southern Italy. To introduce fiscal federalism, however, central government must be willing to reduce its activities. Whilst implementing any reasonable form of fiscal federalism in Italy, the central power would have to considerably change its standpoint and behaviour. In evaluating the achievements towards fiscal federalism up to now, it is possible to perceive an offer of decen-tralisation, which could be an attempt to escape autonomous pressures by building a system of relationships that actually strengthens central predominance. The ideologies of dirigism and centralism appear to be particularly exposed to the danger of using decentralisation as a means of defusing the push for autonomy: this seems to be one of the greatest impediments fiscal federalism is facing in Italy at the moment.

Italy of the "Miracolo" on the Screen. Notes on Cinema and History (by Pietro Cavallo) - The first part of the essay considers the works of those scholars who used movies as sources of history, from Kracauer, with is theory of the mirroring (films reflect the mentality of a country within a specific time) to Pierre Sorlin who affirms that films do not reflect society herself, but rather the way society intends to represent herself. Furthermore the article underlines how films have been history makers in the sense they induced new patterns of life, mostly because they changed the perception of reality. In the second part of the essay there are some examples of the possible use of movies as sources of history taken from the Italian production of the years in which Italy became an industrial country, the years of the Italian miracle, the mid Fifties and the beginning of the Sixties.