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University of Reading
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Article title
Il culto dell’Uno dal Risorgimento al fascismo
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D - Journal article
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Title of journal
Passato e presente
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Volume number
83
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First page of article
76
ISSN of journal
1120-0650
Year of publication
2011
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0
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Non-English
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English abstract
This work looks at attempts under liberalism and fascism to develop cults around such figures as the king, Queen Margherita, Garibaldi, Crispi and Mussolini. From the time of the Risorgimento, the symbolic deficit in relation to Italian unity was widely recognised. The need to promote the monarchy after 1860 - and in due course other cults - gained urgency as the state institutions, and especially parliament, lost credibility. The failure of the monarchy to emerge as a unifying symbol, powerful enough to deflect mass support away from the Catholics and socialists, created a vacuum which the cult of Mussolini exploited.
