Mussolini
GUGLIELMO MARCONI: Science, Fascism, Antisemitism and What Else?
History has given a free pass to Guglielmo Marconi, who was both a scientific genius and a Fascist ideologue.
There are two stories to tell—first in Italy and then in America.
COLUMBUS, MARCONI AND BALBO: Italian Heroes Collide with American Reality
In 1930s America, Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radiotelegraph and Italo Balbo, the aeronautical "Second Columbus" led a brilliantly orchestrated public relations campaign on behalf of Benito Mussolini's regime.
Americans—especially Italian-Americans—enthusiastically embraced the emblems of Fascist ideology until the Second World War intervened.
ANNO FASCISTA = FASCIST YEAR: Florence’s Mussolini-era sewer caps
Benito Mussolini had a rare knack for signs and symbols. Throughout Italy, they still follow us wherever we go.
What about Florence's ubiquitous "Anno Fascista = Fascist Year" sewer caps?
Thereby hangs many a tale...
FROM SEGESTA TO CALATAFIMI: Mussolini Rewrites History
More Mussolini... More signs and symbols...
In Sicily, on the road from the ancient city of Segesta to the Risorgimento battle site of Calatafimi, the Fascist Regime still spins a web of historical connections that don't quite exist.
E.42: Mussolini's Fascist Theme Park on the Outskirts of Rome
What if the Duce threw a World's Fair and no one came?
That is basically the story of the E.U.R. (Esposizione Universale Roma 1942)—one of the Eternal City's strangest and most intriguing districts.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS IN A CAGE: Mussolini's Museum of Roman Civilization
Il Museo della Civilità Romana...in the EUR, Mussolini's bold new World's Fair district in Rome.
For the Duce, what did Civiltà (Civilization) really mean?
How about his obsession with massive bronzes of Roman Emperors?
Caesar Augustus in particular...
HEALTHY FASCIST MIND, HEALTHY FASCIST BODY: Mussolini’s Foro Italico in Rome
Mussolini enshrined this ideal in his Foro Italico (Italic Forum) in Rome, popularly known as the "Mussolini Forum".
Especially in the adjoining Stadio dei Marmi (Stadium of the Marble Statues), with its onslaught of colossal male nudes.
But then the years pass and present-day Romans move in, doing what present-day Romans do...
SKATING OVER HISTORY IN ROME'S MUSSOLINI FORUM
In Rome, the Foro Italico (Italic Forum) still broadcasts Mussolini's message of Fascist power through physical strength—if anyone bothers to listen.
Nowadays, the martial clamor is reduced to a pleasant whir of skateboard wheels rolling over the celebrated mosaics—a veritable encyclopedia of Fascist imagery.