Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-281) and index.
Contents:
Epilogue: Claudia Lazzaro. Roger J. Crum -- I. ITALY'S PAST AS MUSSOLINI'S PRESENT -- Mussolini's body as Fotografia Infamante / Claudio Lazzaro -- To make history present / Claudio Fogu -- II. ANTIQUITY -- 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 -- III. MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE -- 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 -- IV. HISTORY AS FASCIST SPECTACLE AND EXHIBITION -- 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, Claudia Lazzaro.
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