Mussolini wanted to identify Fascist Rome with Ancient Rome, but more than this, he wanted to associate himself with Augustus, the first and founding emperor of the imperial period. To see how he did this in architecture, we today visit the Piazza of Augustus the Emperor.

birthday of the emperor Augustus, linked the ancient Roman legacy with the Fascist past. Mussolini came to power after a tumultuous time in Italian history, making his leadership and emphasis on Roman pride easily received by the Italian public. Mussolini’s use of romanitá allowed Italians to see in Fascism the opportunity for a new golden

The concept of the authority of ancient Rome and the authority of Fascist Italy, represented by Augustus and Mussolini, mutually reinforced each other 'by virtue of a play of substitutions' where social, religious, political and historical realms exchanged attributes on both a symbolic and a ceremonial level.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Mussolini invoked images of ancient Rome to create a new Fascist mythology and to associate himself with the Roman Emperor Augustus as a means to legitimize his dictatorship. To further this aim, he initiated the excavation of

Mussolini made explicit the connection between himself and Augustus and that between Fascism and Imperial Rome. In 1925 he wrote: "In five years Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world: vast ordered, powerful as it was in the time of the first emperor Augustus."" MUSSOLINI AND THE MAUSOLEUM OF AUGUSTUS

In 1937, Mussolini held the Mostra Augustea della Romanità (MAR) in Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni as a celebration of the 2000th anniversary of the birth of the emperor Augustus. Within five years of this exhibition, Mussolini wanted to present the city of Rome in relation to

In the 1920s and 1930s, Mussolini invoked images of ancient Rome to create a new Fascist mythology and to associate himself with the Roman Emperor Augustus as a means to legitimize his dictatorship. To further this aim, he initiated the excavation of the Mausoleum of Augustus and the creation of a surrounding piazza.

2020年5月11日 · This can be seen at Piazza Augusto Imperatore, at the center of which is the vast circular Mausoleum of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus (63 BC - 14 AD). As a ruler who established one-man control of the state and was hailed as a new founder of Rome, Augustus was of particular interest to Mussolini, who sought to draw parallels with his own reign.

2023年1月22日 · While Italy’s Fascist government was defeated at the end of World War II, the Piazza of Emperor Augustus and the ruins that Mussolini excavated remain, as do the Fascist-era buildings that frame them.

This paper studies Augustus and Mussolini's use of propagandist methods in establishing the specific images each man wanted the people to embrace and, in some cases emulate, during their respective regimes.