The “Dizionario storico-ragionato degli uomini illustri del Canton Ticino“, written by Gian Alfonso Oldelli, is a sort of encyclopedia of 1807 where Andrea Brilli is mentioned. It should be noted that all famous people (“uomini illustri”) mentioned in this encyclopedia were indeed, according to the author, exclusively men. A quick

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814 – 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and the founder of Collectivist Anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism, and one of the principal founders of Social Anarchist tradition. Bakunin’s enormous prestige as activist made of him one of the most famous

Insubrica Historica learned about Leonardo Conti (1900-1945) while reading the monumental work of Robert Jay Lifton called “The Nazi Doctors”, an essential study related to human genocide in the field of jewish survivors and doctor perpetrators. The book was written by Lifton, and at first sight, it was not that

The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated in Locarno from October 5 till October 16 1925 and were formally ratified in London on 1 December 1925. The treaties defined how the Western European Allied powers and the new states of the Central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the territorial