Physical Description
vi, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Contents
Forging a visible fascist nation : strategies for fusing past and present / Claudio Lazzaro
To make history present / Claudio Fogu
Augustus, Mussolini, and the parallel imagery of empire / Ann Thomas Wilkins
"Il primo pilota" : Mussolini, fascist aeronautical symbolism, and Imperial Rome / Gerald Silk
Fascism Triumphans : on the architectural translation of Rome / Jobst Welge
Inventing the Palazzo del Corte in Ferrara / Diane Yvonne Ghirardo
Towers and tourists : the cinematic city of San Gimignano / D. Medina Lasansky
Shaping the fascist "new man" : Donatello's St. Geroge and Mussolini's appropriated renaissance of the Italian nation / Roger J. Crum
Mussolini, mothers, and Maiolica / Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Politicizing a national garden tradition : the Italianness of the Italian garden / Claudio Lazzaro
Leonardo's smile / Emily Braun
Celebrating the nation's poets : Petrarch, Leopardi, and the appropriation of cultural symbols in fascist Italy / Benjamin George Martin
The return of the repressed : tradition as myth in futurist fascism / Christine Poggi
Flash memories (Sironi on exhibit) ; Appendix : Mario Sironi, "The manifesto of muralism" / Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Epilogue : Mussolini's body as Fotografia Infamante / Roger J. Crum and Claudia Lazzaro.
Other Authors/Editors
Lazzaro, Claudia, 1947-
Crum, Roger J.
ISBN
0801442885
0801489210 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-281) and index.
Forging a visible fascist nation : strategies for fusing past and present / Claudio Lazzaro -- To make history present / Claudio Fogu -- Augustus, Mussolini, and the parallel imagery of empire / Ann Thomas Wilkins -- "Il primo pilota" : Mussolini, fascist aeronautical symbolism, and Imperial Rome / Gerald Silk -- Fascism Triumphans : on the architectural translation of Rome / Jobst Welge -- Inventing the Palazzo del Corte in Ferrara / Diane Yvonne Ghirardo -- Towers and tourists : the cinematic city of San Gimignano / D. Medina Lasansky -- Shaping the fascist "new man" : Donatello's St. Geroge and Mussolini's appropriated renaissance of the Italian nation / Roger J. Crum -- Mussolini, mothers, and Maiolica / Jacqueline Marie Musacchio -- Politicizing a national garden tradition : the Italianness of the Italian garden / Claudio Lazzaro -- Leonardo's smile / Emily Braun -- Celebrating the nation's poets : Petrarch, Leopardi, and the appropriation of cultural symbols in fascist Italy / Benjamin George Martin -- The return of the repressed : tradition as myth in futurist fascism / Christine Poggi -- Flash memories (Sironi on exhibit) ; Appendix : Mario Sironi, "The manifesto of muralism" / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- Epilogue : Mussolini's body as Fotografia Infamante / Roger J. Crum and Claudia Lazzaro.
