Elisabetta Cassina Wolff, Italias Politiske historie, 476-1945, Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2015. (Kapittel 2, 4, 6 og 7)
Christopher Duggan, A concise history of Italy (second edition), Cambridge 2014 fra side 242 til side 306.
Anbefalt lesning
Zygmunt G. Baranski, Rebecca J. West: The Cambridge Companion of Modern Italian Culture, Cambridge University Press.
David Forgacs, Robert Lumley: Italian Cultural Studies: An introduction, Oxford University Press.