Fascism and Classical Antiquity
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Nella romanità fascista, uno degli elementi più importanti fu la nozione d’imperialismo, che sin dall’inizio costituì una delle basi dell’ideologia fascista. Legato anch’esso all’antichità romana, l’‘imperialismo romano-fascista’, cioè... more
The myth of «Romanity» was a fundamental aspect of Fascist propaganda and ideology. However, in Italy, scholars began to investigate this theme as an object worthy of historical interest only from the mid-1970s on. There appear to have... more
From the early 1930s to the early 1960s many scholars, whether liberal minded or socialist ideologues, Marxist or scientific positivists, classical scholars or political theorists and historians, have shown a widespread consensus in... more
Het fascistische regime in Italië (1922-1943) weefde door middel van een alsmaar toenemende controle op het openbare leven een web, ontwikkelde een discours waaraan slechts weinigen zich wisten te onttrekken. De dagelijkse realiteit werd... more
Drawing on current scholarly research on “political religions,” as well as on the “politicisation” of religion, this article presents a study of the Jesuitical periodical La Civiltà Cattolica, of which it analyses the years 1922-1943. The... more
published in "Mythe des origines et réalités (géo)politiques : la Mostra Augustea della Romanità (1937-1938)", Cahiers de la Méditerranée, n° 101, décembre 2020, pp. 115-127.
Il saggio analizza alcuni esempi delle forme assunte dal dibattito sul rapporto fascismo-latinità nei dibattiti artistici degli anni Venti, con particolare riferimento alle interpretazioni del rapporto classicità-modernità in ambito... more
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Although Lionello Venturi’s anti-Fascism is well documented, further research is needed on its intersection with an eccentric reading of medieval art. Published during the consolidation of the regime as a dictatorship, Venturi’s Il gusto... more
The National Socialist State represented itself by means of vast public buildings, executed in a stripped neoclassical style, thus linking the Third Reich directly with Antiquity and a more recent German past (1750-1850). Hitler, who... more
Van bij het begin profileerde Mussolini zijn fascisme als een revolutionaire nationalistische beweging die de resurrectie van Italië vooropstelde en haar expliciet in historische termen concipieerde. De verwantschap met het antieke Rome... more
La storia del fascismo italiano è ormai abbastanza nota. Gli studi sui meccanismi e le motivazioni, per così dire, culturali del fenomeno sono invece in pieno sviluppo. Questi vertono, tra l’altro, a riconoscere una certa modernità al... more
En décembre 2005, alors que j’achevais la rédaction d’une thèse de doctorat ayant pour sujet le mythe de Rome sous le fascisme en Italie, j’avais l’intention de poursuivre mes recherches dans ce domaine, et de dresser un bilan global de... more
Le mythe de la Troisième Rome connaît un nouveau développement dans l’imaginaire politique et culturel de l’Italie du XIXe siècle, par les réflexions et dans l’action du patriote Giuseppe Mazzini, qui définit au cours du Risorgimento la... more
The close relationship between archaeology and politics in the fascist period is also confirmed by the story of a famous image: the duce, pick in hand, demolishes an old building in the area on Via dell’Impero. This image expresses a... more