ABSTRACT
The Introduction presents the reader to the content of the book, explaining the choice to write a book on the Italian experience of transitional justice. While in recent years there has been a growing interest in comparative transitional justice, there is a major blind spot: no comprehensive analysis of the Italian transitional justice experience after Fascism and World War II can be found. This book aims to close this gap. The underlying hypothesis of this research is that the mechanisms used by Italy, both judicial and extra-judicial, in order to deal with its past, can be read diachronically within an overall transition process, to which some current phenomena must be traced back as well. The Introduction also explains the methodology and the structure of the book.
