
The Cult of the Duce
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Academics and students with interests in Italian and European history and politics will find the volume indispensable to an understanding of Fascism, Italian society and culture, and modern political leadership.
Among the contributions is an Afterword by Mussolini's leading biographer, R.J.B. Bosworth. -- .
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Christopher Duggan is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Reading
Giuliana Pieri is Reader in Italian and the Visual Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London -- .
Content
1. Political cults in liberal Italy, 1861-1922 - Christopher Duggan
2. The propagation of the cult of the Duce, 1925-26 - Christopher Duggan
3. Margherita Sarfatti and the invention of the Duce - Simona Storchi
4. Sanity from a lunatic asylum: Ida Dalser's threat to Mussolini's image - Daniela Baratieri
5. Mass culture and the cult of personality - Stephen Gundle
6. A town for the cult of the Duce: Predappio as a site of pilgrimage - Sofia Serenelli
7. Mussolini's appearances in the regions - Stephen Gundle
8. The internalisation of the cult of the Duce: the evidence of diaries and letters - Christopher Duggan
9. Mussolini and the Italian Empire, 1935-41 - Giuseppe Finaldi
10. Portraits of the Duce - Giuliana Pieri
11. Photographing Mussolini - Alessandra Antola
12. Mussolini as monument: the equestrian statue of the Duce at the Littoriale stadium in Bologna - Simona Storchi
13. Mussolini and the city of Rome - Eugene Pooley
14. The destiny of the art and artefacts - Giuliana Pieri
15. The aftermath of the Mussolini cult: history, nostalgia and popular culture - Stephen Gundle
16. Mussolini and postwar Italian television - Vanessa Roghi
Afterword - R.J.B. Bosworth
Notes on contributors
Index -- .
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