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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I winced at how he pronunced Garibaldi's name

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The old theory that the Renaissance was caused by a great influx of Byzantine refugees coming to the West after Constantinople's fall in 1453 is not accepted today by any reputable scholar. It is indisputable that the Renaissance was a Latin, not a Greek movement. The Renaissance was already happening in Italy and in Florence long before 1453, and had nothing to do with Byzantine scholars. Multiple factors brought the birth of the Renaissance in Italy: the economic, cultural and political situation, the work of Italian scholars and writers such as Petrarch, Coluccio Salutati, Niccolò de' Niccoli, Poggio Bracciolini, etc. all combined to bring the birth of the Renaissance in Italy. Petrarch is known as the father of the Renaissance, and he was staunchly anti-Greek. If there was such an overflowing of Greek scholars, why didn't these Byzantines ever create anything like the Italian Renaissance in their own country? To attribute the start of the Renaissance to some Byzantine refugees is simply bad history.

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

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?

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

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

i love italy so much

Italian states where rarely conquered, but pretty much always subjugated, as their territories where to rich and contested to mantain power on.

Great video man, I really appreciate you helping me learn about my country's past

Thank you for these videos. I will be spending a lot of time in Italy (Piemonte). Two months this year. So nice to have a simple and informative class like this.

Oh my favourite country in modern times

3:44 I don't know any General named Gisepi Geriboldi... Oh, maybe you mean Giuseppe Garibaldi?

Absolutely love this series!! Would you ever consider doing a history of Wales ?

Great job!! Excellent video and explanation. Can you please make a video for the Greek history?

"The rich Italian cities had a lot of money on translating these books". I stopped watching the video there, describing the Renaissance to be born on a waste of money is so disrespectful. And reading all the other feedbacks, I can get a general idea on the poor quality of the video.

I'm relatively new to the channel, but I've blown through nearly every video you've done already. I'm gonna request something I don't think you do, but I would like to hear about the history of a country outside of europe and go for thailand since I'm going there next year. If not it would be cool if you could do switzerland or portugal.

Naples was the capital of the Aragonese and Angevin empire for centuries. This means that the French and Spanish kings came to live in Naples. Unfortunately this changed with the Habsburgs who moved the capital to Madrid, creating the Spanish state that did not exist before. It is kings and armies that make nations, never peoples.

I love these video! Have you ever thought about including subtitles? They could be useful and the automatic ones are not always that good...

To be honest I think you missed many important parts of history of Italy, as it is difficult to make a video of 2700 years of history in 15 minutes... You didn't speak about the economic boom of 60's, the political crisis of 90's, the importance of communist party in Italy between the II W.W. and the 90's, the terrorism of the 70's... You didn't speak neither about the wars between Northern Italy cities and Holy Roman German Empire in late middle age. You didn't speak about the competition between "guelfi" and "ghibellini" in every cities of northern-central Italy of middle age. The short story of Italian colonialism... The war between France and Spain in Italy... The coming of Normans in Southern Italy... The rhole of Venice againts the Ottoman Empire and Austria... And many other things...

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF HISTORY DO GREECE!

YAYYYYYY love seeing that notification. you are a gem man. quality history vids.

love your channel man

History of Italy without covering my main man D'Annunzio?! Painfully Incomplete.

Very nice, I love the serie and I thumbs up! :)

A collaboration between Suibhne and Armchair historian that really good I like both

Great video as always!

All the best things come from Italy! 🇮🇹, the Renaissance, Pizza, Rome, Fascism......... Wait a minute

Sorry, I know I'm being a jerk but... "Jusepi Jerrybaldi" hahaha :D it's "Giuseppe GARibaldi", pronounced 'gar' as in 'garment'.

Good video dude.

YOU DID ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS IN ILLUSTRATOR?!?! WHAT A HUGE AMOUNT OF WORK! Respect, from Italy ;)

Thank you for part 2 =D

Honour to Italy in Ww1 🇮🇹❤️

Great series as usual. Viva l'Italia!

Great work! I’d love to see a history of England soon

Italy - the origin of Renaissance :-0

I enjoy your video's and see alot of the generic recommedations in this comments section (China, USA, Greece, UK, their own country). I would love it if you did a country that people haven't heard of before, let alone know anything about. Like Indonesia, Ecuador or Honduras for example, or even more obscure ones like Uzbekistan, the island of Socotra or perhaps the history of an Oceanic or Caribbean nation :) Thanks for the videos.

You have a wonderful channel!!! Cheers from Italy ;)

Finally part 2!!! Good!

Animated history of Greece please.

Interesting history, especially about Roman empire, thanks for video! Love Italy from Ruthenia (Ukraine)!

Great job! Could you make a video about Sardinian history?

You're one of the best people who tell about history:-)

I would be most pleased if you could make a Animated history of Sweden =D

7:45 "The communist members of parliament were expelled in 1947." Uhm no, it never happened.

Bravo, ottimo lavoro

Thank you so much for your videos

Could you cover the animated history of China?

Can You make one about Portugal mate?

Great video

Congrats on 200k

Thanks for making these videos, i'm proud my country has the oldest history in Europe, alongside with Greece.

Animated history of Greece???

The history of Italy in two ten minute videos... good work!

What an awesome video.Can you do the animated history of Greece next pls

Nice overview, of course it's impossible to expect you'll go over too many details in only 10 minutes; but it would've been worth at least mentioning the italian resistance during WW2. Certain areas of Northern Italy freed themselves from the Nazi-Fascists multiple times through the years. It had a lasting effect on culture and politics and, while today it only resembles what it used to be, it still had a big impact on life. Speaking of which, in two days it will be the Liberation Day anniversary (25th April).

Who among the comments is Italian? And how many had a heart attack when he said that way Garibaldi? But still great video

Nicely done. You should do one on Romanian history from ancient times until modern.

Great job

Respect to Italy/Italians from Poland, especially in the light of the recent elections

Please do Greece, I'd love to see videos that cover Greek history after the Classical Era (Especially Byzantine Greece and the birth of modern Greece)

The Battle of Monte Casino is just an absolute tragedy. The very first Benedictine Monastery had been there for 1,500 years. The Allies thought the Axis was up there so the shelled the monastery to rubble. Unfortunately, the Axis was actually on an adjacent hill, but decided to dig into the rubble of the monastery which only made winning the battle harder for the Allies 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

i can't wait to see your series on the merchant republics

“Fascismo” KZfaq captions: fishy smell

Great vidwo

thanks for mentioning the giudicati!

WW1 italy switch Side becose the pact of triplealliance said that it's only for defence not offensive (so germany and Austria-Hungary make theyr first mistake). And we joined the allies for the land that austro hungary had. BUT the pact of London (pact that said that all the italian land that was occupied by Austria Hungary should brought back to The italian) Oviusly by the end of the war The Allies didn't respect the pact and that's why after the war italy never accept an aliance to The allies. Then idk where did you Pick up that thing that english and frence help to The italian front becose it's Soo fuking false.

You forget that the Byzantiens reunite the most of Italy (70-80%) when Ioustinianos was the leader of Byzantium.

Cool channel, subscribed!

love the artstyle

Can u make a video with history of Hungary?

Why does nobody covering this topic ever mentions the reason Italy didn't join Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I? The so-called alliance was actually a defensive pact and the reason Italy initially stayed neutral was that Austria-Hungary was the aggressor, which went against the pact's agreements. I've noticed at least another comment on this, from The Blue Mapper. Please, if you fancy yourself an educator, stop perpetrating idiotic myths about Italy being the side-switching nation, it is highly dishonest from an intellectual stand point and flies in the face of actual History

Intro is amazing

(I'm Italian): I was going to love your videos but this, my friend...I think this video is really too superficial about the WWII on the events of the allied invasion of the South: You have not talked clearly about the creation of the Italian Social Republic [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic] (RSI, founded in Salò by the Third Reich on Mussolini's - fake - leadership) and the Resistance made by both partisans (in the North) and Italian (allies co-belligerant) Royal Army (from the South) of the "Kingdom of the South" [it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regno_del_Sud] led by King Victor Emmanuel III and his Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio after the Armistice of Cassibile [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_Cassibile]. Moreover, in my opinion, even the part about the Institutional Referendum granted by King Umberto II in 1946 is terribly superficial and worse not objective.

7:40 "The communist members of parliament were expelled in 1947" What? How would it be democratic? It seems that your history knowledge has been misled by some political opinion of yours... Maybe in Australia you are not so used to the the idea that each political opinion deserves to be represented in the parliament. But let me tell you something that i hope you just haven't find evidence of: as the matter of fact the communist party was the second biggest in Italy until the '90s, soaring 'till a maximum of 35% of approval rate in '76 elections. Furthermore many of the founding fathers of the republic who wrote the constitution were indeed communists.

Bellissima la storia d italia spiegata così..bravo

Good I was bored and great video as usual

It's a really interesting video, but there are some errors: actually, Hitler praised Mussolini and considered him his political master; the first form of fascism wasn't really that racist, and antisemitism raised only in the 30s because of Hitler's influence on Italy. To speak the truth, this is actually a more complex matter than it may seem. Sometimes fascism was racist and other times not, but this matches perfectly with the oppurtunistic vision of Mussolini, that once stated: "We allow ourselves the luxury of being aristocrats and democrats; conservatives and progressives; reactionaries and revolutionaries; legitimists and illlegitimists; according to conditions of time, place and circumstance"; the modern age part was toooooo much simplified.

Hungary or Greece next!

Very cool. Thank you

Fun fact, San Marino Gave Garibaldi A Hiding Place While We Was Hunted By Tons Of Soldiers, The Sammarinese Told Garibaldi They Want To Stay Independent, And Garibaldi Said OK. That's Why San Marino Wasn't Gulped By Italy.

Now do History Of Greece!

Can you do Iran please ?

This is my first video of you guys there amazing!!

Good explanation.

Do The animated History of CYPRUS ❤❤

you kinda skipped ~350 years from 1453-1800s