However, the Italian government insisted that General Baratieri act.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

Consisting of British, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, US and Austrian troops, the alliance defeated the Boxers and demanded further concessions from the Qing government.

* RAI International: In Summer 2004, this Italian government controlled channel was denied permission to broadcast independently in Canada on the grounds that it had acted and was likely to act contrary to established Canadian policies.

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government ( see History of Italy ) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula ( see Italian language ).

This delineation existed until the 1930s when the Italian government expanded the zone.

In 1967, the Denominazione di origine controllata ( DOC ) regulation set by the Italian government firmly established the " Ricasoli formula " of a Sangiovese-based blend with 10-30 % Malvasia and Trebbiano.

This delineation existed until July 1932, when the Italian government expanded the Chianti zone to include the outlying areas of Barberino Val d ' Elsa, Chiocchio, Robbiano, San Casciano in Val di Pesa and Strada.

Eritrea was chosen by the Italian government to be the industrial center of the Italian East Africa.

The Italian government continued to implement agricultural reforms but primarily on farms owned by Italian colonists.

The Italian government wanted to create in Asmara an impressive building, from where the Italian Governors could show the dedication of the Kingdom of Italy to the " colonia primogenita " ( first daughter-colony ) as was called Eritrea.

The Italian Eritreans strongly rejected the Ethiopian annexation of Eritrea after the war: the Party of Shara Italy was established in Asmara in July 1947 and the majority of the members were former Italian soldiers with many Eritrean Ascari ( the organization was even backed up by the government of Italy ).

The Etruscans ' objets d ' art are of incalculable value, causing a brisk black market and equally brisk law enforcement effort, as it is against the law to remove objects from Etruscan tombs unless authorized by the Italian government.

The Fascists managed to seize control of several post offices and trains in northern Italy while the Italian government, led by a left-wing coalition, was internally divided and unable to respond to the Fascist advances.

Upon being appointed Prime Minister of Italy, Mussolini had to form a coalition government, because the Fascists did not have control over the Italian parliament.

Yugoslavia, Greece and Ethiopia requested extradition of 1, 200 Italian war criminals who however never saw anything like Nuremberg trial, because the British government with the beginning of cold war saw in Pietro Badoglio a guarantee of an anti-communist post-war Italy.

Japanese fascist Nakano Seigo advocated that Japan follow the Italian and German models, which were " a form of more democratic government going beyond democracy " which itself had " lost its spirit and decayed into a mechanism which insists only on numerical superiority without considering the essence of human beings.

In an effort to increase birthrates, the Italian Fascist government gave financial incentives to women who raised large families, and initiated policies designed to reduce the number of women employed.

Italian Fascism called for women to be honoured as " reproducers of the nation ", and the Italian Fascist government held ritual ceremonies to honour women's role within the Italian nation.

The next day, 3 July, Rommel ordered the Afrika Korps to resume its attack on the Ruweisat ridge with the Italian XX Motorised Corps on its southern flank.

The Italian commander ordered his battalions to fight their way out independently but the Ariete lost 531 men ( about 350 were prisoners ), 36 pieces of artillery, six ( or eight?

Instead, he ordered the national budget slashed by 30 percent, dismissed the Italian military advisers, and nationalized Italian-run Roman Catholic schools in the northern part of the country.

In 1599 he ordered the Italian miller Menocchio – who had formed the belief that God was not eternal but had Himself once been created out of chaos – to be burned at the stake.

* June 16 – All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10.

In February 1937, following an assassination attempt on Italian East Africa's Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, Graziani ordered Italian soldiers to raid the famous Ethiopian monastery Debre Libanos, where the would-be assassins had briefly taken refuge and had the monks and nuns in the monastery executed.

In 1545, the Parliament of Aix ordered the destruction of the villages of Lourmarin, Mérindol, Cabriéres in the Luberon, because their inhabitants were Vaudois, of Italian Piedmontese origin, and were not considered sufficiently orthodox Catholics.

After repeated attacks by German submarines on U. S. ships, Roosevelt announced on 11 September 1941 that he had ordered the U. S. Navy to attack German and Italian war vessels in the " waters which we deem necessary for our defense ".

This bath house was radically transformed by the first humanist pope of the Italian Renaissance, Nicholas V, who, c. 1454, ordered the construction of a bath palace to be built ( according to Nicholas's biographer, Gianozzo Manetti ) " with such magnificence and with such expense that it was not only deemed suitable for a stay and salutary for the sick but seemed an edifice destined to have rooms fit for princes and for living regally.

It includes several distinctive residences such as the Judge Ira Fields home ( 1897 ); the cut stone Palumbo House, and Italian villa-inspired house built by master stonemason John Palumbo ; the stately Salyers House Bed and Breakfast, built for Confederate States of America Col. Logan Henry Neal Salyer in the early 20th century ; and a Dutch Colonial style home ordered from the Sears Modern Home Catalog and delivered to its owner, in pieces, by railcar in 1928.

New blockships were sunk, booms and mines were placed over the main entrances, increased anti-aircraft batteries were installed at crucial points, and Winston Churchill ordered the construction of a series of causeways to block the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow ; they were built by Italian prisoners of war held in Orkney.

At a memorial concert for Italian composer Giuseppe Martucci on May 14, 1931 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, he was ordered to begin by playing Giovinezza but he refused even though the fascist foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano was present in the audience.

In defiance of Italian demands, he ordered the national budget to be slashed by 30 percent, dismissed all Italian military advisers, and nationalized Italian-run Roman Catholic schools in the north of Albania to decrease Italian influence on the population of Albania.

Initially giving Graziani a deadline of 8 August, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ordered Graziani to invade Egypt with the 10th Army.

In November, the division was ordered to support the Italians against the Austro-Hungarian forces at the River Piave which then formed part of the Italian Front.

At that point, the Commander-in-Chief Middle East General Sir Archibald Wavell ordered the 4th Indian Division withdrawn to spearhead the invasion of Italian East Africa.

In fall 1940 Italian Marshal Rodolfo Graziani ordered his Army in western Egypt to complete this new coastal road extending the Via Balbia 60 miles inside Egypt, even in order to create an infrastructure for a planned Italian invasion of the Nile Delta in January / February 1941.

Based on a warning of imminent glider landings transmitted by the station's previous occupants, the local Italian commander ordered a counter-attack but his troops failed to receive his message.

Wilson, sent to inspect the Italian Front, was worried that Venice might fall and on behalf of the SWC ordered the new Italian commander Diaz to construct new defensive positions on the River Brenta, which in the event were not needed as the line of the River Piave held.

In 1949, he ordered 14 Catholic tribesmen in the Mirdita region executed after underground fighters aligned with conservative Albanian political exiles working as Italian Navy espionage agents executed Bardhok Biba, a relative of Catholic tribal leader Gjon Markagjoni who had turned against the tribal system to become a ranking Communist district official.

The great strength of the Italian industry was historical epics, with large casts and massive scenery.

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.

Beginning in the 2nd century BC, Rome went through a significant population expansion as Italian farmers, driven from their ancestral farmlands by the advent of massive, slave-operated farms called latifundia, flocked to the city in great numbers.

According to the guidebook, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis had difficulty finding financial backers for the massive undertaking until he finally began talks with the Russians in the late 1960s and reached agreement with the Mosfilm organization.

The growth of many suburbs and satellite settlements around the city proper, following the Italian economic miracle of 1950s – 60s and massive commuting flows, suggest that socioeconomic linkages have expanded well beyond the boundaries of its administrative limits and its agglomeration, creating a region of approximately 9. 3 million people.

It was more successful than envisaged and resulted in massive numbers of Italian prisoners and the advance of the Allied forces up to El Agheila.

However, as the British attack faltered, the main effort switched to the 9th Division, which punched a massive dent into the German and Italian position over the next five days at great cost, " crumbling " the Afrika Korps in the process, and ultimately forcing Rommel to retreat.

For most of its existence it possessed a massive Victorian altar and reredos by Turnerelli, a Belfast born sculptor of Italian parentage.

Despite Giovanni Battista Mancini's claim that Hasse was the padre della musica, and despite the composer's massive popularity as a figure at the very forefront of 18th-century serious Italian opera, after his death Hasse's reputation vastly declined and his music lay mostly unperformed ( with the exception of some of his sacred works, which were revived now and again in Germany ).

The Italian labor force ( large parts of which had remained socialist or communist despite fascist rule ) regarded socialization as a sham and responded with a massive strike on March 1, 1944.

Suspension failure in Great Britain led to a massive crash but the Italian bounced back to qualify seventh and finish fifth in Germany.

The later years of Norman rule over Malta brought massive waves of immigration to the Islands from Sicily and from the Italian mainland, including clergy and notaries.

Although there was not a massive flight of Italian Jews from Italy during this period ( compared to the situation in Germany ) composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, an Italian Jew, was one of those who emigrated.

Fiat invested in building the massive VAZ plant in the newly created town of Togliatti, named after the Italian communist leader of the same name.

The Hot Autumn ( autunno caldo in Italian ) of 1969 – 1970 was a massive series of strikes in the factories and industrial centers of Northern Italy, during which workers demanded better pay and better conditions.

Largely due to massive southern Italian immigration in the 20th century, there are also numbers of speakers in Italian diaspora communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.

The large Palazzo Medici in Florence, built by Cosimo, was designed by him ; it is one of the noblest specimens of Italian fifteenth-century architecture, in which the great taste and skill of the architect has combined the delicate lightness of the earlier Italian Gothic with the massive stateliness of the classical style.

What started as a five-day raid turned into Operation Compass, resulting in massive losses for the Italian forces.

Several books have been published about Mario Bava: Mario Bava by Pascal Martinet ( Edilig, 1984 ) and Mario Bava edited by Jean-Louis Leutrat ( Éditions du Céfal, 1994 ) in French ; Mario Bava by Alberto Pezzotta ( Il Castoro Cinema, 1995 ) in Italian ; The Haunted Worlds of Mario Bava by Troy Howarth ( FAB Press, 2002 ) and most recently, the massive critical biography Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark by Tim Lucas ( Video Watchdog, 2007 ; ISBN 0-9633756-1-X ).

These reforms, however, were not as successful due to massive unpopularity in the Italian provinces.

A massive 50-day-long aerial campaign was launched against the island of Leros defended by Italian troops commanded by Admiral Mascherpa, who resisted the German air offensive before the landing of British support troops, which was invaded by the Germans who landed by sea and air on November 12 and surrendered four days later.