The Codex Fori Mussolini

A Latin Text of Italian Fascism

Dr Han Lamers, Dr Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-2695-0 (ISBN)

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The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible to the cheering crowds, a metal box lies immured in the obelisk’s base. It contains a few gold coins and, written on a piece of parchment, a Latin text: the Codex fori Mussolini. What does this text say? Why was it buried there? And why was it written in Latin?

The Codex, composed by the classical scholar Aurelio Giuseppe Amatucci (1867-1960), presents a carefully constructed account of the rise of Italian Fascism and its leader, Benito Mussolini. Though written in the language of Roman antiquity, the Codex was supposed to reach audiences in the distant future. Placed under the obelisk with future excavation and rediscovery in mind, the Latin text was an attempt at directing the future reception of Italian Fascism.

This book renders the Codex accessible to scholars and students of different disciplines, offering a thorough and wide-ranging introduction, a clear translation, and a commentary elucidating the text’s rhetorical strategies, historical background, and specifics of phrasing and reference. As the first detailed study of a Fascist Latin text, it also throws new light on the important role of the Latin language in Italian Fascist culture.

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 Illustrations
Acknowledgements
The Codex Fori Mussolini in Context
1.Introduction
2.Structure and Content
3.Editions
4.The Author of the Codex Fori Mussolini
5.The Codex and the Use of Latin under Fascism
6.The Codex and the Foro Mussolini
7.The Codex under the Obelisk
8.The Codex as a Foundation Deposit
Latin Text and Translation
List of Textual Variants
Commentary
Timeline
List of abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Zusatzinfo	24 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	395 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-4742-2695-7 / 1474226957
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-2695-0 / 9781474226950
Zustand	Neuware