History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

—WINSTON CHURCHILL

Con disavvantaggio grande si fa la guerra con chi non ha che perdere.

(We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.)

—FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI, STORIA D’ITALIA, 1561