In the Reviews section, Michele Battini discusses Alberto M. Banti’s new book, L’onore della nazione. Identità sessuali e violenza del nazionalismo europeo (The Honour of the Nation. Sexual Identities and Violence in European Nationalisms, Torino 2005), which analyses the nationalist discourse in European culture and the image that it offered from the 18th century to the first world war of nation and community, structured around the hierarchy between sexual gender and founded on patriotic love, female chastity and marriage based on love.