1. Maurizio Zinni, Fascisti di Celluloide (Venice: Marsilio, 2010) 265–85.
2. The expression is owed to Rino Formica, himself a leading PSI politician in the 1980s. Pietro Stampa, ‘Gli psicologi italiani 1970–2010: dalla rivendicazione istituzionale all’ “ansia di conformismo”’, Rivista di Psicologia Clinica, 2 (2011) 13.
3. Paul Ginborg, Italy and Its Discontents (London: Allen Lane, 2001) 157–62.
4. Between 1976 and 1978, the PCI agreed to abstain on the confidence votes for the Andreotti government; after Moro’s murder, in 1978, the PCI formalised their support with a confidence and supply agreement for a further year. Paul Ginsborg, Storia d’Italia dal Dopoguerra a Oggi II (Turin: Einaudi, 1989) 507–11.
5. Berlinguer’s funeral was attended by over a million people. Ginborg, Discontents (2001) 159.