Fascism's Urban Epicenter : Remaking Rome in the Era of Charismatic Politics

Scott, John Beldon

ISBN 10: 9004743510 / ISBN 13: 9789004743519

Published by Brill, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fascism's Urban Epicenter : Remaking Rome in the Era of Charismatic Politics
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004743510
• ISBN 13: 9789004743519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This book re-imagines the heart of Rome, animating it with the mass rituals of Mussolini’s pioneering regime of twentieth-century totalitarianism. It retrieves from a post-war amnesia the ceremonial events, urban sites, and historic monuments of the Duce’s charismatic rulership, demonstrating how architecture and urbanism functioned as instruments of persuasion in fashioning a fevered national identity. Piazza Venezia and its surrounding structures emerge anew as material and spatial exemplars of an illiberal modernity, first as incubator and then as cockpit of a novel form of politics. Here you will experience the frenzied crowd at pavement level as a quintessential phenomenon of Fascist rule.

About the Author

John Beldon Scott, Ph.D. (1982), Rutgers University, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa. His books include Images of Nepotism: The Painted Ceilings of Palazzo Barberini (Princeton, 1991) and Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin (Chicago, 2003).