Abstract:
This work is an analysis of the relations between Italy and Libya during the Seventies, a research based on the articles of the Italian newspaper “La Stampa”. These relations, therefore, are considered only regarding about what was written in the press and give a clue about what the reader thought about these, in particular are not considered diplomatic documents and the history books that are quoted are mostly in the introductive chapter; seventy years summarized in few pages that represent the context at the eve of the libyan putsch of September 1st, 1969, that is explained in the second chapter.
The new leader, Muammar Gaddafi, strongly condemned the past colonization done by the Italians, as it can be seen in the next chapter, and confiscated the properties of those who were still living in that north-african country. There were tensions between Italy and Libya but while the former needed oil, the latter needed Italian capitals, an appeasement that evolved in formal cooperation.
The curiosity for Gaddafi and Libyan affairs as a whole, in the press, can be seen in both Chapter four and five. The reason is that the news did not considered only bilateral relations but also the leader ideology and how it shaped the institutions and the foreign policy, above all the relations with Egypt.
