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Italy was the diplomatic ‘quantité negligéable’; the nation of ‘sturdy beggars’ . By 1900 few European statesmen saw any reason to doubt the accuracy of these words of Lord Salisbury in dismissing all Italy’s pretensions to be a Great Power. Italy was a ‘poor country [which] … will always have their hand out for a “piccola elemosina” ’.1
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Bosworth, R. (1983). Italy Among the Powers, 1900–11. In: Italy and the Approach of the First World War. The Making of the 20th Century. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17022-7_3
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