
| Considerations on charisma and the cult of charismatic leadership |
| The death (and re-birth) of the hero: charisma and manufactured charisma in modern Italy |
| Hero, saint or revolutionary? Nineteenth-century politics and the cult of Garibaldi |
| Charisma and social movements: Errico Malatesta and Italian anarchism |
| Mussolini's charisma |
| Pius 12.: Romanita, prophesy and charisma |
| De Gasperi and Togliatti: political leadership and personality cults in post-war Italy |
| Umberto Bossi: charisma, personality and leadership |
| Silvio Berlusconi and the myth of the creative entrepreneur |
| Political leadership in Italy: towards a plebiscitary democracy? |