Berlusconi's rise to power was meteoric, winning his first elections in 1994 at the helm of a new party named after a football slogan, Forza Italia, or Go Italy. He resigned in disgrace in 2011 ...

The party he founded, Forza Italia, identifies with his person and would ... Parlamento e lotta politica in Italia 1948-1994, Roma, Istituto storico italiano per l’età moderna e contemporanea, 2010, p ...