We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Voor anker in drijfzand: De obelisk en de Codex van het Mussolini-Forum.
- Authors
LAMERS, HAN; REITZ-JOOSSE, BETTINA
- Abstract
Italian Fascism anchored its revolutionary ideology in the Roman past, embedding and legitimising changes in every sphere of life through an appeal to a supposedly shared Roman heritage. In this article, we scrutinise these Fascist dy- namics of anchoring through an analysis of the Mussolini obelisk in Rome and the Latin text hidden below it: Aurelio Amatucci's Codex Fori Mussolini. We focus especially on the Fascist manipulation of the obelisk tradition, the significance of Amatucci's choice of language, and his use of ancient authors within the Codex . We argue that the ‘ground' in which monument and text are anchored is funda- mentally unstable: the Roman past itself is a dynamic and adaptable construction. Obelisk and Codex selectively evoke and (re-)combine a multiplicity of elements – from antiquity to the twentieth century, from the Renaissance to the Risorgi- mento. In doing so, obelisk and text shape the very tradition in which they anchor.
- Publication
Lampas, 2018, Vol 51, Issue 4, p375
- ISSN
0165-8204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5117/lam2018.4.007.joos