The Codex Fori Mussolini: A Latin Text of Italian Fascism (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception)

Well worth the study A very useful and well presented account and commentary.

Her research focuses on the relation between Latin literature and Roman material culture and on Classical Reception in Italian Fascism.. 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. His research focuses on the Classical Tradition in Early Modern and Modern Europe. Han Lamers
"Lamers's and Reitz-Joosse's philological expertise is evident in their critical analysis of the text … and they do an admirable job of situating the Codex in relation to its ancient antecedents, its political setting, and its function within the larger tableau of the Foro Italico … The authors should be commended for bringing this (literally) buried treasure to light, and for the rigor with which they pry it open. The book has been proofread meticulously and is lavishly illustrated." - Classics for All Reviews"This fascinating, excellently researched and richlyillustrated volume presents the f

The year is 1932. 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. Though written in the language of Roman antiquity, the Codex was supposed to reach audiences in the distant future. 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. 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. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, b