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[The Italian population during the Great War].

The major aim of this paper is to provide a general outline of Italian mortality during the Great War. The years picked out here are very difficult to analyse because of the deficiencies and the biases of the official sources; these problems are particularly relevant in the case of military sources. For this reason the analysis refers only to civil population.The first part of the paper describes the general trend and the age structure of Italian mortality during these years as well as examines infant and child mortality evolution and territorial differences. The Spanish flu of 1918-1919 played a crucial role in lowering Italian life expectancy in the years under examination. The second part of the paper is totally devoted to the analysis of specific causes of death and pays great attention to data quality problems. Respiratory diseases (influenza in particular), tuberculosis and malaria caused the major increase in the number of deaths and they were also responsible of the great geographical variation which marked Italian mortality during the Great War years. The approach adopted is mainly descriptive but the author also explores interpretative hypotheses of these territorial differences. "