Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97
Save Photo Denis Mack Smith in an undated photograph. Denis Mack Smith, whose myth-destroying interpretation of Italian unification infuriated many Italian historians but established him as the pre-eminent British writer on modern Italy, died on July 11 at his home in Oxford, England. He was 97. In his first book, “Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860: A … Read more