The second issue of “Annali.Reviews.Online” of 2025 opens with a forum dedicated to Sergio Luzzatto's Dolore e Furore. Una storia delle Brigate Rosse, reviewed by John Foot and Davide Serafino. The book provides an in-depth look at the city of Genoa — its streets, factories, neighborhoods, and schools — demonstrating how the urban and social environment shaped radicalism and violence. Luzzatto combines documentary research, interviews, and historical reflections, never shying away from the ethical and methodological questions concerning the role of the historian and the relationship between words and actions. By dedicating a forum to this book, we aim to highlight an important work and to bring two emotions that historical research continually encounters to the fore: pain and rage. These feelings are not confined to individual experience; they become part of collective memory, political struggles, and social processes that shape historical epochs.

In the Cross-Epochal, Early Modern History, and Contemporary History sections, reviews explore the complexities of past and present societies, covering topics such as religious dynamics, mobility, labor, infrastructure, and the unresolved issues of the 20th century, as well as new questions about the fate of war refugees.

What emerges is a dialogue across the centuries. ARO thus confirms its vocation as a critical forum where history becomes a tool for reflection and comparative analysis, not merely a space for reviews.

Katia Occhi

Editorial March 2025

It is with great pleasure that we present the new issue of «Annali.Reviews.Online» 2025/1, the digital journal of the Italian-German Historical Institute of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

We live in an era in which access to knowledge should be a universal right. With this spirit in mind, our journal was founded in 2018 as a space dedicated to the critical review of history books, freely accessible to everyone. We believe that historical knowledge should not remain confined within academic walls but should circulate freely, enriching public debate and providing tools to better understand the present through the past. Read more...

Editorial September 2024

The new issue of ARO 2024/2 opens with a FORUM dedicated to the events of urban planning in Europe, the central theme of the volume edited by Max Welch Guerra, Abdellah Abarkan, María A. Castrillo Romón, and Martin Pekár, European Planning History in the 20th Century: A Continent of Urban Planning (New York, 2023), reviewed by Marika Fior and Christoph Strupp. Read more...

Editorial March 2024

Dear readers, the first 2024 issue of «Annali.Reviews.Online» opens with the Forum “Religion and Social History in the Early Modern Period” dedicated to two important volumes, Sacre metamorfosi. Racconti di conversione tra Roma e il mondo in età moderna by Chiara Petrolini, Vincenzo Lavenia, and Sabina Pavone and Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews. Early Modern Conversion and Resistance by Emily Michelson. Read more...

Editorial September 2023

Dear readers, we are pleased to present to you the September edition of “Annali.Reviews.Online”, the last issue of 2023. It opens with an interesting Forum devoted to the book of Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, La natura del duce. Una storia ambientale del fascismo, reviewed in the Italian edition (published by Einaudi) by Simona Leoni Boscani (Bern) and in the English edition Mussolini’s Nature (published by MIT Press) by Anna Koch (London). Read more...

Editorial May 2023

The new issue of "ARO" (Annali Reviews Online) 2023/2 inaugurates a new season for the Italian-German Historical Institute at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, with the renewal of its governing bodies. Read more...

Editorial 2021

The journal «ARO» (Annali Reviews Online) was established in 2018 with the aim of promoting the dissemination of research and fostering the transnational dialogue between historical science specialists. Read more...


Editorial 2018

"Annali.Reviews.Online" (ARO) is a new electronic journal devoted entirely to book reviews in keeping with a trend that is becoming widespread in international scientific publishing. Read more...