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The family of August von Haxthausen (a landowner, poet and lawyer who had supported peasant uprisings against Napoleonic rule) was a good source, as was the family of Wilhelm’s future wife. The Grimms ...

Italy is often thought of as a political laboratory, anticipating events in other countries: fascism in the 1920s; the showman-businessman turned politician in the 1990s; populism in the 2010s. Great ...