Between the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s, the Italian presence in Hungary had to deal with particularly difficult and complex events: the end of the fascist regime and the armistice in Italy, the German occupation of Hungary, the liberation by the Red Army and finally the progressive inclusion of the country into the Soviet orbit. Focusing on the dimension of cultural relations, the essay traces the evolution
of the Italian interests in Hungary, through the analysis of educational and cultural institutions, which continued to play, even in those years, a central role in the Italian strategy towards Central-Eastern Europe.
