Search results for "fascism"
showing 10 items of 217 documents
Banks, Firms and Economic Culture: Economists and Research Centres in Interwar Italy
2020
In the interwar years, Italy experimented a strong growth of applied economic research. The foundation of research centers can be read and placed in a much wider international trend that emerged during the Great War. In this essay, we offer a map of the most important research centers, exploring the extensive web of relationships between the academia and the productive world. We then focus on a set of case studies, selected for their relevance. Section 2 is devoted to the banking sector, with reference to four important cases (Banca Commerciale Italiana, Banca d’Italia, Associazione Bancaria Italiana and Banco di Sicilia); section 3 to the industrial sector (IRI, Finsider, Ansaldo, Edison, …
Dimenticare il Balkan. La distruzione del Narodni Dom di Trieste nelle rielaborazioni fasciste (1921-1941)
2016
On July 13th 1920, in Trieste, the fascists destroyed a building known as «Balkan», an outpost of the Slovenian community. This essay studies the symbolic legacy of that assault, as it was one of the first fascist squads actions in Italy. The memory of the «Balkan» is analysed through its connections with important squads leaders’ careers, the effects of Trieste’s urban expansion and the fascist cult of the fallen «squadristi». The timeline of this study stretches until the Second World War, when the fascists attack on the Slovenian and Croatian population hit a new peak.
Introduzione, in [Meridiana : rivista di storia e scienze sociali : 92, 2, 2018].
2018
The period between the two World Wars marks the end of mass emigration for Italy. In the course of thirty years, the migratory flows were transformed: the number of starters was reduced and the trajectories changed. The new restrictions established by immigration countries – (e.g. the Quota Acts in the Twenties) – and the advent of the fascist regime redesigned the paths of Italian emigrants. At first, Mussolini gathered the legacy of liberal governments; then, since the end of the Twenties, he inaugurated a new migration policy, in line with the demographic policy of the regime and strengthening the link between emigration and foreign policy. As the historian Bertonha wrote, emigration bec…
Monteverdi in the garden: L'Incoronazione di Poppea in Fascist Florence
2022
On June 3, 1937, in the amphitheatre of the Boboli Gardens in Florence, L’incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi was performed by an ensemble of remarkable artists. It was the first stage performance of the opera in Italy in modern times. This article aims to reconstruct the historical context and details of this performance, which can be considered emblematic in many ways of the reception of ancient music in Italy in those years. In the first part I will discuss this performance in the context of Fascist Florence, showing how it served to celebrate Florence’s cultural primacy. In the second part, I will deal with L'incoronazione's prior performances in Italy and abroad. In the third…
L’Aula Magna dell'Università di Palermo: cronistoria di un cantiere decorativo (1928-1938)
2020
Situata all'interno dell'odierno Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, l'Aula Magna dell'Università di Palermo è stata progettata dall'architetto Antonio Zanca che firma nel 1929 il progetto esecutivo di un ambiente neo-settecentesco dotato di mobilio e decorazioni pittoriche sulle pareti. Nel 1934 è stato indetto un concorso nazionale per l'affidamento delle decorazioni pittoriche vinto da Arduino Angelucci e Manlio Giarrizzo cui spettano rispettivamente la volta e le pareti. Grazie alla stampa locale è possibile ricostruire - almeno in parte - le vicende di questo concorso che si colloca in un contesto nazionale fortemente attento, dopo la Triennale di Milano del 1933, al problema della decoraz…
Fascismo, antifascismo, spirito del tempo. A proposito di un dibattito in corso
2019
Il dibattito sul fascismo e l'anti-ascismo nell'Italia repubblicana
Intellettuali siciliani fascisti e antifascisti
2019
Once the empire was over, with the fascist conquest of Ethiopia in 1936, imperialists had to be done. To drag the country into this miraculous palingenesis, fascism strengthened its alliance with the Church, emancipated itself from the diarchy with the Crown, concentrated military command on itself, sought a new constitutional formula of the State that would allow it to "last", he set up the project of a new state of the regions, started the legal system of racist and anti-Semitic inequality, abandoned what remained of the legality of the Statute replacing it with the principle of the will of the leader, tried to return to radical origins by assaulting the latifundium and finally set off on…
Il poliziotto di un regime totalitario. Vita e carriera di Giuseppe Gueli
2013
The aim of this essay is to retrace Giuseppe Gueli’s life and career: a police offi cer (member of the P.S., the Italian public safety), who had formed during the last years of the liberal period, and who went through Italian Fascism and its development into a totalitarian regime. Beginning his career alongside Cesare Mori, Gueli fi lled in fact relevant positions within the Italian police as it had been organized by Arturo Bocchini: at fi rst in Alto Adige (South Tyrol) to set up the awkward system of the border police, in the Thirties Gueli moved to Sicily where he led a second repression campaign against the mafi a and fi nally, during the Forties, he became chief of the Special Inspecto…
P. Paoletti, Cefalonia 1943. Una verità inimmaginabile, in Il mestiere di storico. Annale Sissco 2008, p. 428.
2008
Viene qui recensito l'ultimo saggio che ricostruisce e interpreta quanto avvenuto nell'Isola di Cefalonia tra l'armistizio dell'8 settembre e la decimazione delle truppe italiane.
Sulla ‘ineluttabilità’ del fascismo. Rileggendo la crisi 1919-1922
2014
Il saggio propone una diversa interpretazione della crisi del 1919-1922, mostrando la vitalità della prospettiva liberal-democratica e la non ineluttabilità del fascismo.