About This Book
A collection of diplomatic diary entries and documents reproduces the foreign-policy activity of Francesco Crispi, presenting correspondence, reports, and editorial notes on relations with Germany under Chancellor Caprivi, the Tripolitania question and French policy, defenses at Bizerte, Italo–Austrian tensions and irredentism, Franco‑Italian financial and diplomatic disputes in the 1890s, an Italo‑Portuguese incident, Balkan affairs, the Armenian massacres and European reactions, and the crisis of alliances involving the Triple Alliance and Britain. An editor's preface highlights Crispi's efforts to protect Italians abroad, promote Italian schools, and support national missions.