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When the First World War broke out in 1914, Italy decided to remain neutral. Italy entered the war only on 24 May 1915, and the aim of the present section is to explain what happened in Italy in the interval.
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A large overview on Italian intellectuals and the First World War is in [30].
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Quoted in [23], p. 175.
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On Levi-Civita's pacifism, see the correspondence between Levi-Civita and Birkhoff, in [44]. Here, Levi-Civita wrote that “imperialism” is the actual enemy of people.
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Contained in Volterra's Archive, Accademia dei Lincei.
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Volterra's Archive, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome.
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Boccardi refers to Strasbourg congress of Mathematicians in September 1920.
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Mazliak, L., Tazzioli, R. (2009). Volterra and Italian Interventionism Between 1914 and 1915. In: Mathematicians at war. Archimedes, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2740-5_5
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