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The Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy

The Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy

Lasansky, D. Medina

Paperback

Series: Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Book 4

General ArchitectureArchitecture HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 0271025077
ISBN13: 9780271025070
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Dec 15 2004
Pages: 412
Weight: 3.79
Height: 1.21 Width: 8.92 Depth: 10.10
Language: English

Mussolini's bold claims upon the monuments and rhetoric of ancient Rome have been the subject of a number of recent books. D. Medina Lasansky shows us a much less familiar side of the cultural politics of Italian Fascism, tracing its wide-ranging efforts to adapt the nation's medieval and Renaissance heritage to satisfy the regime's programs of national regeneration. Anyone acquainted with the beauties of Tuscany will be surprised to learn that architects, planners, and administrators working within Fascist programs fabricated much of what today's tourists admire as authentic. Public squares, town halls, palaces, gardens, and civic rituals (including the famed Palio of Siena) were all restored to suit a vision of the past shaped by Fascist notions of virile power, social order, and national achievement in the arts. Ultimately, Lasansky forces readers to question long-standing assumptions about the Renaissance even as she expands the parameters of what constitutes Fascist culture.

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