The Animated History of Italy | Part 2

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Beginning part two, Italy has been recaptured by the Byzantines thanks to the tenacious ambitions of Emperor Justinian. But throughout the Middle Ages, the land became a battleground for more powerful empires. The 19th Century Italian revolution would see the peninsula swept up in the waves of Nationalism that was taking the continent by storm.

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[TheArmchairHistorian]

Great working with you Suibhne! And an awesome video as usual.
Griff

[fnun_ita]

In my opinion, Italian history is the most difficult, and very rich, full of wars, cultures, and different kingdoms but above all for its fascinating history from the Roman Empire to the Italian kingdom and today Italy

[brunodemarco]

"Giusepi Giaribaldee? Are you joking?" "No, dude. Just like Uiliam Scec- spir".

[sterkar]

Love Italy from Greece. I feel you Italians really close to us Greeks

[devinfernandez]

I don't know how you could do a "History of Italy" series and not even mention Dante. The Renaissance section was also incredibly short, especially considering how important it is to Italian history and culture

[il_]

3:44 "giuseppe girobaldi" ahhh, it hurts so much..

[TheStardel]

You did a good editing job but you made some critical errors:
- It's Garibaldi not Giribaldi. Pronounced Gawreebaldee.
- italy didn't "switch side" in ww1, the triple alliance was only a defensive pact and austria was the aggressor.
- it's not true that italy only progressed in WW1 with the help of uk and france. The first battle of Piave river was fought by the italian army alone and started the offensive against the austrians.
- Mussolini believed in italian culture superiority, not racial, and wanted to restablish a roman empire.
- last communist member expelled in 1947? not at all, the PCI (italian communist party) was a major party since 1992 when it changed name in PDS (democratic left party) after the USSR collapse.

[mhitm]

I winced at how he pronunced Garibaldi's name

[TheBlueMapper]

4:40 NOTE:
The reason why Italy had changed sides was because the Triple Alliance was a *defensive* alliance. The Austro-Hungarians were the aggressors, so Italy didn't have to be on their side. That's also why Romania had ''changed sides.'' They didn't betray the Triple Alliance or anything.

[pinkopat]

The way you said Giuseppe Garibaldi like "Giuseppe Giaribaldi" hurt my italian soul

[francescofoccillo]

7:46 The italian Communist party was the strongest outside the eastern block, and it was totally legal and held a lot of seats in both branches of parliament. It was crucial for the creation of the constitution.

[leonardomolinari]

Italian that are watching this video : gseppi ciaribaldi
Also italians:

[liamc.kongsbaklarsen]

Generally good video but it’s worth noting Mussolini’s African ambitions weren’t driven by racial motivations like the video states, they were driven primarily by territorial and colonial rivalry with France and Britain. The race politics were more or less unique to Germany and Japan, it was even a strong point of negative relations between Italy and Germany given Hitlers view of Italians as an inferior race and the fact that many of the Fascist Party’s earliest and highest up members were Jewish. The closest argument I can think of would be Italy’s race laws instated in 1938 but these were very likely instated under heavy German pressure and Italy’s one real war in Africa outside WWII, in Ethiopia, preceded them by 3 years.

There’s a lot to criticize about Mussolini and the Fascist regime, but making up or misrepresenting facts feels like a distraction away from discussion on what there actually was in Fascist Italy that went awry.

[phoenixjz]

Great video!
One thing I do have to comment on as a correction - the general consensus among historians is that the Balkan affairs did *not* delay operation Barbarossa, and that was a factor later attributed as a result of one of Hitler's rants about his allies. The *real* cause for the delay was the late spring 'wet season' which prevented operations from commencing earlier - even Guderian stated as much about Barbarossa.

[DFTN]

Italian history is way more complex and complicated. Specially the last 200 year. This video contains only "half-truths"

[francescomeneghello]

The comunist members of the Parlament were not excluded😅 the comunist party was the second biggest party from 50's to 90's

[CogitoEdu]

Let's all thank Mussolini for helping the Allies defeat the Nazis :D

[josephjacquescesairejoffre]

Oh my favourite country in modern times

[rbvsubstituteteacher]

2:50: "... the rich Italian states had the money to waste..."
Are you suggesting that the start of the Renaissance was a waste of money?

[ZeldaOcto]

Erm, Mussolini did not care about race. In fact, he thought it was trivial.
"Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.… National pride has no need of the delirium of race."
~Talks with Mussolini, 1932