Abstract

The last few years have seen growing interest in research on relations between Italy and Latin America in the 1970s, which has helped highlight important aspects of the connections that, at different levels, involved those countries' institutions and sectors of civil society at that time. Italian historians have mainly focused their attention on the relations between Italy and the Southern Cone, particularly Chile and Argentina, even though Central American events during those years also exerted a certain political influence on the Italian peninsula. This article aims to provide a reconstruction and an interpretative analysis of the evolution of Italian historiography on the subject, also taking into account some of the research relating to the previous decade and the subsequent one.