Codex Fori Mussolini

Han Lamers is Research Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on the Classical Tradition in Early Modern and Modern Europe. He is the author of Greece Reinvented: Transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy (2015).Bettina Reitz-Joosse is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature at Groningen University. Her research focuses on the relation between Latin literature and Roman material culture and on Classical Reception in Italian Fascism.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsThe Codex Fori Mussolini in Context1.Introduction2.Structure and Content3.Editions4.The Author of the Codex Fori Mussolini5.The Codex and the Use of Latin under Fascism6.The Codex and the Foro Mussolini7.The Codex under the Obelisk8.The Codex as a Foundation DepositLatin Text and TranslationList of Textual VariantsCommentaryTimelineList of abbreviationsBibliographyIndex

Offers a new element in the mosaic of Latin texts under Fascism and gives back to scholars and cultivated people a forgotten work … The authors offer a detailed edition, translation and commentary of the text and show a not so common knowledge of the complex dynamics of the Italian culture of these years, as the rich bibliography shows. They correctly place in context the composition of this political summary of the most important features of Fascism. Moreover, they explain with the help of a rich and useful set of illustrations the geographical position of the text and of the monuments that host it, while posing interesting questions on the role of this text in reception studies concerning Roman Fascism, placing themselves in the most productive tradition of Realien.