Medievalism. The Future of the Past (original) (raw)

2000, Quaderni d'Italianistica

Recensioni nell'imporre ai tre giornali canadesi, ormai privi di anche un barlume d'indipendenza editoriale, testi e materiale iconografico di propaganda miranti a diffondere spudoratamente le illusioni e le menzogne del fascismo all'estero. Come anche in Australia, la cieca e servile aderenza alla politica del Regime da parte della comunità emigrata, a torto o a ragione riflessa da una parte della stampa italiana, diede in Canada i prevedibili risultati: all'entrata dell'Italia nella seconda guerra mondiale, il 10 giugno 1940, su una comunità di 42,578 emigrati nati in Italia, a seconda del censimento del 1931, circa 600 vennero internati nel campo di Petawawa nell'Ontario settentrionale. Se confrontato con la situazione australiana, questo fu un trattamento benevolo da parte delle autorità canadesi; infatti in Australia, su una comunità di 26,756 nati in Italia, a seconda del censimento del 1933, ben 4727 furono internati.

Empires ancient and modern: strength, modernity and power in imperial ideology from the Liberal period to Fascism, in "Modern Italy", october 2014

This article examines the image of Empire developed in public discourse in Italy during the late Liberal period and Fascism by placing it in the context of representations of the British Empire, with which Italian imperial ambitions were compared. There is a continuity in seeing the British Empire as the expression of industrial and commercial modernity and its resultant strength, but what in the Liberal period was seen as an unparalleled superiority became under Fascism a supremacy acquired in a particular period but now exhibiting signs of decline, which Fascism should contest and surpass. Admiration of the British was mixed with disparagement: key figures expressed a competitive resentment towards Britain and its dominant international position, seeing it as the epitome of 'modern' imperial power against which Fascism was destined to be measured. In the 1930s signs of the British Empire's decline were sought, developing the idea in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that British domination would also rise and fall, and announcing the replacement of the 'British order', founded on commercial modernity and the strength of money and capital, by Fascism's new civilisation, with its authentic heritage of imperial romanità. This competitiveness towards Britain, which historiography has principally seen as a component of foreign policy (as was clear over Ethiopia), has additional significance when seen as an element of political culture that relates to the concept of the State. The autonomy and strength of the State were an important feature of Fascism's self-representation and of its legal culture, and in this light the possession of an empire came to be seen as an essential aspect of statehood and power.

Fascism in Italian Culture: 1945-2023 / Il fascismo nella cultural italiana: 1945-2023

Annali d'Italianistica 41 2023

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Empires ancient and modern: strength, modernity and power in imperial ideology from the Liberal period to Fascism

Modern Italy, 2014

This article examines the image of Empire developed in public discourse in Italy during the late Liberal period and Fascism by placing it in the context of representations of the British Empire, with which Italian imperial ambitions were compared. There is a continuity in seeing the British Empire as the expression of industrial and commercial modernity and its resultant strength, but what in the Liberal period was seen as an unparalleled superiority became under Fascism a supremacy acquired in a particular period but now exhibiting signs of decline, which Fascism should contest and surpass. Admiration of the British was mixed with disparagement: key figures expressed a competitive resentment towards Britain and its dominant international position, seeing it as the epitome of ‘modern’ imperial power against which Fascism was destined to be measured. In the 1930s signs of the British Empire's decline were sought, developing the idea in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman E...

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M.B. Urban, Narrare il fascismo nell’era digitale: storia, memoria e transmedialità in M. Il figlio del secolo, in Annali di Italianistica, 41, 2023, 'Il fascismo nella cultura italiana, 1945-2023', edited by G. BARTOLINI, C. BURDETT, C. LEAVITT, G. LICHTNER, G. PIERI, pp. 445-472.

Annali di Italianistica, n. 41, 2023

Martin J. Bull, Contemporary Italy. A Research Guide, Bibliographies and Indexes in World History, 43, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut and London, 1996, 141 pp., ISBN 0-313-29137-3 hbk, £51.95

Modern Italy, 1998