The Italian resistance (It. Resistenza italiana) is the umbrella term for the various partisan forces formed by pro-Allied Italians during World War II. They were also known as the Partisan Resistance, in Italian: Resistenza partigiana, and the Second Risorgimento. The 1947 democratic Constitution of the Italian Republic declared itself to be “built on the Resistance”. On April 19, 1945, concurrent with the renewal of [...]