for territorial concessions at the end of the war. While Giolitti supported neutrality, Salandra and Sonnino, supported intervention on the side of the Allies, and secured Italy's entrance into the war despite the opposition of the majority in parliament. On 3 May 1915, Italy officially revoked the Triple Alliance. In the following days Giolitti and the neutralist majority of the Parliament opposed declaring war, while nationalist crowds demonstrated in public areas for entering the war. On 13 May 1915, Salandra offered his resignation, but Giolitti, fearful of nationalist disorder that might break into open rebellion, declined to succeed him as prime minister and Salandra's resignation was not accepted. On 23 May 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary. Salandra had expected that Italy's entrance on the allied side would bring the war to a quick solution, but in fact it changed little, and Italy's first year in the war was marked by only very limited success. Following the success of an Austrian offensive from the Trentino in the spring of 1916, Salandra was forced to resign. After World War I, Salandra moved further to the right, and supported Mussolini's accession to power in 1922. Nine years later he died in Rome. He was awarded Order of Karađorđe's Star. Works He is the author of a considerable number of works on economics, finance, history, law, and politics (New International Encyclopedia). These include: Tratto della giustizia amministrativo (1904) La politica nazionale e il partito liberale (1912) Lezioni di diritto amministrativo (two volumes, 1912) Politica e legislazione : saggi, raccolti da Giustino Fortunato (1915) Il discorso contro la malafede tedesca (1915) Italy and the Great War: From Neutrality to Intervention (London: Edward Arnold, 1932), See also Italian entry into World War I Radiosomaggismo References Further reading Bosworth, Richard J.B. Italy the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War (2005). Clark, Martin. Modern Italy: 1871 to the present (2008). Lowe, Cedric J. "Britain and Italian Intervention, 1914–1915." Historical Journal 12.3 (1969): 533-548. Mack Smith, Denis (1997). Modern Italy: A Political History, (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1997). Renzi, William A. In the Shadow of the Sword: Italy's Neutrality and Entrance into the Great War, 1914-1915 (1987). Salandra, Antonio. Italy and the Great War: From Neutrality to Intervention (London: Edward Arnold, 1932), a primary source. Sarti, Roland (2004). Italy: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present, New York: Facts