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Book SynopsisThe cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, looking in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media, and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwar period. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Stephen Gundle, Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri
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
