La Santa Sede e i nazionalismi mediorientali alla fine dell'Impero ottomano

The essay, also based on documentation from the Vatican archives, outlines Vatican policy in the difficult Ottoman scenario during the years of the First World War and the immediate post-war period.\r\nAn articulate action but made difficult by the substantial diplomatic isolation of the Holy See. In spite of this, Vatican diplomacy deployed an action aimed above all at preserving in every way spaces of pluralism and cohabitation, to guarantee the survival of the Christian communities devastated by the ‘total’ violence of the war, also opening a dialogue with the nascent Turkish national movement led by Mustafa Kemal.