[Opinion] Resilience, the Opinion of Pilar Rahola

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Tacitus first expressed the idea in 98 AD in his book Agricola, in which he attempted to vindicate the honor of the famous general Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who had suffered a heavy defeat in the Roman campaigns in Britain and had fallen into disgrace. Centuries later, Galeazzo Ciano, husband of Mussolini's eldest daughter and one of the leaders of Italian fascism, formulated it in the terms we know today, when Italy was suffering severe defeats i…