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I documenti diplomatici italiani. Terza serie: 1896-1907, Vol. VIII: 3 novembre 1903 -28 marzo 1905, ed. Giampiero Carocci

2011; Oxford University Press; Volume: CXXVI; Issue: 520 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ehr/cer080

1477-4534

John Gooch,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

The eighth volume to appear in this eleven-volume sub-series covers the years of Giovanni Giolitti's second premiership, during which Tommaso Tittoni took up the reins of Italian foreign policy, which he did not relinquish until 1909. Tittoni's reputation as a triplicista, which the documents both confirm and in interesting respects also modify, helped Giolitti to load the blame onto his ‘inexperienced’ foreign minister when Paris began to grow uncomfortable at the warmth of Rome's relations with Berlin and Vienna. In fact, the neophyte foreign minister was boxed in by three diplomatic agreements with which he had nothing to do: the renewal of the Triple Alliance in February 1902, the Prinetti-Barrère accords in June 1902 which cut across it, and the Mürzsteg accords between Russia and Austria in October 1903, which, in a different way, did the same thing. The Anglo-French entente in 1904 added a further complication. Thus in this volume we watch a foreign minister assiduously seeking to safeguard Italy's interests when the international agenda was largely being set and controlled by other, greater powers.