Abstract: Claudia Baldoli „The Catholic Peasant Protest against War in the Po Valley, 1914–1917“

Confrontation between interventionists and neutralists in Italian cities and countryside saw the former prevail between autumn 1914 and spring 1915. The stereotyped image of an immobile peasant mass waiting passively to be directed by others does not reflect the reality of the war years; indeed, sections of the peasantry demonstrated actively against the war. My contribution proposes to explore the forms, language and content of the peasant protest in the Po Valley in northern Italy against i..