Book reviews.

Reviews several books about modern Italian studies. "Legitimizing the Artist: Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885 – 1915," by Luca Somigli; "Liberal and Fascist Italy, 1900 – 1945," edited by A. Lyttelton; "The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism and Fascism," by Emilio Gentile; "The Correspondence of Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori (1932 – 1966): An Enduring Transatlantic Friendship Between Two Historians of Religious Toleration," edited by J. Tedeshci; "The Art of Persuasion: Political Communication in Italy from 1945 to the 1990s," edited by Luciano Cheles and Claudio Sponza.