Benito Mussolini, who ruled Fascist Italy from 1922 to 1943, had ambitious plans for the nation’s capital. In the historic center he sought to uncover the remains of Imperial Rome, on which he ...

The French Fleet had one end of the Mediterranean tied up and the English had the other. Nevertheless, flushed by its recent conquest of Albania, Fascist Italy last week talked, screamed, shrieked ...

Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship."--Publisher's description Date 2015 20th century Type Books ...