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Hace 5 días · In agricultural policy, the government aimed at self-sufficiency by encouraging grain production after 1925 (“the battle for wheat”). Mussolini was filmed and photographed as he cut grain, bare-chested, in fields throughout Italy. Grain was grown for symbolic reasons in city centres such as Milan’s Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square).
Hace 5 días · Italy - European Union, Mediterranean, Diplomacy: As time passed, Fascist foreign policy became more expansionist. In particular, Mussolini aimed at acquiring territory in Africa and in the Mediterranean, for which he adopted the ancient Roman term mare nostrum (“our sea”). Even in 1923, in his first year in office, he briefly invaded the Greek island of Corfu to avenge the murder of four ...
Hace 5 días · Blackshirts participating in the March on Rome, October 1922. (Photo Credit: Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone / Getty Images) Leading officials were aware Benito Mussolini and his Fascist supporters were preparing to exact action against the government and tried to enacted a “state of siege” for Italy’s capital city, but King Victor Emmanuel III refused to sign the order.
Hace 5 días · It had become clear that the Fascist government was likely to involve Italy in a disastrous European war, as indeed it did in 1940. Italy - Anti-Fascist, Resistance, Partisans: For a long time, organized anti-Fascist movements remained weak, divided, and illegal and had no access to press or radio. The Communists were soon the most significant ...
Hace 2 días · Neapolitan writer Vittorio Imbriani, in his little-known novel Merope IV: Sogni e fantasie di Quattr’Asterischi (Merope IV: The Dreams and Fantasies of Four Asterisks) (1867), constructed a critique of photographic representation around an imaginary photographic portrait of a woman, exploiting the photograph as fictional construct and promoting its textuality as well as its ability to ...
Hace 3 días · Victor-Emmanuel III Victor-Emmanuel III, huile sur toile de Arnaldo Tamburini (1902). Titre Roi d'Italie 29 juillet 1900 – 9 mai 1946 (45 ans, 9 mois et 10 jours) Président du Conseil Giuseppe Saracco Giuseppe Zanardelli Giovanni Giolitti Alessandro Fortis Sidney Sonnino Luigi Luzzatti Antonio Salandra Paolo Boselli Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Francesco Saverio Nitti Ivanoe Bonomi Luigi Facta ...
Hace 5 días · The obvious collapse of France convinced Mussolini that the time to implement his Pact of Steel with Hitler had come, and on June 10, 1940, Italy declared war against France and Great Britain. With about 30 divisions available on their Alpine frontier, the Italians delayed their actual attack on southeastern France until June 20, but it achieved little against the local defense.
