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Mussolini’s Rome

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781403976918

ISBN: 978-1-4039-8002-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Mar 12, 2021

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Mussolini’s Obsession with Rome

Painter, Borden W.

Pages: 1 –19

[On October 28, 1922, King Victor Emmanuel III invited Benito Mussolini, leader of the Fascist Party, to form a government. It was a triumphant moment for Mussolini, who had founded the fascist movement only three and a half years before with a few hundred followers in Milan. The movement had...
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Celebration and Construction, 1932–1934

Painter, Borden W.

Pages: 21 –38

[The year 1932 marked an important stage of development for fascist Rome. The tenth anniversary of the March on Rome, the Decennale, offered the regime the opportunity to celebrate its achievements and especially to introduce new spaces and events in Rome. An English-language pamphlet of the...
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Sports, Education, and the New Italians

Painter, Borden W.

Pages: 39 –57

[Mussolini promised to bring about a fascist revolution that would produce a new and powerful Italy led by a new breed of Italian men, who would be physically fit, imbued with a martial spirit, disciplined, and always ready to fight and, if necessary, die for fascism and the fatherland. Women...
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Architecture, Propaganda, and the Fascist Revolution

Painter, Borden W.

Pages: 59 –90

[The transformation of Rome into Mussolini’s Rome required countless contracts for projects large and small. The regime, through the Governatorato, supervised building patronage on a grand scale. Indeed, Mussolini’s government acted in the same way throughout Italy. Much was at stake, both in...
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Population, Neighborhoods, and Housing

Painter, Borden W.

Pages: 91 –113

[Mussolini believed that the transformation of Italy into a great and imperial power depended on a growing population and the central role of the family. Demographic policy, the “Battle of Births,” provided the road to revolution, fascist style: Italy must be prolific in order to assert itself...
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Axis and Empire

Painter, Borden W.

Pages: 115 –139

[Mussolini’s fascist revolution promised the Italian people two major changes: First, Italians would achieve internal unity, experience a new identity as Italians, and fulfill the promise of the Risorgimento to overcome the traditional divisions in the name of the new national community; and...
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War and Resistance

Painter, Borden W.

Pages: 141 –162

[The construction boom in Rome and the surrounding Agro Pontino slowed and then came to a halt after Italy’s entrance into the war on June 10, 1940. Italy had signed its Pact of Steel with Germany in May 1939, which completed the diplomatic and military alliance of the Axis powers. Mussolini had...

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