Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of illustrations vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I The Origins of a Personality Cult
7. 1 Political cults in liberal Italy, 1861–1922 11
8. 2 The propagation of the cult of the Duce, 1925–26 27
9. 3 Margherita Sarfatti and the invention of the Duce 41
10. 4 Sanity from a lunatic asylum 57
11. 5 Mass culture and the cult of personality 72
12. Part II The Duce and the Fascist Regime
13. 6 A town for the cult of the Duce 93
14. 7 Mussolini’s appearances in the regions 110
15. 8 The internalisation of the cult of the Duce 129
16. 9 Mussolini and the Italian Empire, 1935–41 144
17. Part III The Iconography of the Duce
18. 10 Portraits of the Duce 161
19. 11 Photographing Mussolini 178
20. 12 Mussolini as monument 193
21. 13 Mussolini and the city of Rome 209
22. Part IV After the Fall of Fascism
23. 14 The destiny of the art and artefacts 227
24. 15 The aftermath of the Mussolini cult: history, nostalgia and popular culture 241
25. 16 Mussolini and post-war Italian television 257
26. Afterword 270
27. Index 278