La Grecia di Alessandro De Bosdari e Mario Caracciolo. Testimonianze della Prima guerra mondiale

Alessandro De Bosdari was the representative of the Kingdom of Italy in Greece from 1913 to 1918 and Mario Caracciolo was a military attaché at the Italian representation during the First World War. In their writings, published in the 1920s, both left traces of their experiences, providing interesting testimony of the important events they witnessed, including some unexpected information and statements. Those writings can now be easily compared not only to other sources of the same nature or with international historiography, but also with Italian diplomatic documentation and that of other countries. From re-reading the pages of De Bosdari and Caracciolo and from the comparison mentioned above, it is possible to draw a rich and precise picture of Greece in a crucial passage of its history. In fact, there was a profound division within the political world and society, the so-called ethnikós dichasmós, which remained as a dramatic legacy to post-war Greece and even beyond the Second World War. In addition to this, the country and its ruling class suffered serious violations of national sovereignty and a grave interference in their internal affairs by two of the Protecting Powers (since 1832), France and England, followed by a hesitant Italy. The Italian policy was dictated by the non-negligible differences between Italian and Greek interests