Rome, archipelago of the memory. The city of the Duce between myth, project and reality

Abstract

Between 1922 and 1945 the fascist management try to approach Roma city to the Italian society by means of the architectonic way, make up the historical past and the sacralising of the Ancient Roman´s myth. Benito Mussolini, absolute promoter of the resurrection of Ancient Roman´s grandeur, was the author of one mass politic direct to consolidate the hegemony of the fascism by means of urban image that offered sequences unconnected, disort and out of reality context. In what extent the roman urban history, to catch for the fascist doctrine, and specifically, for the Duce´s thinking is debtor of the mythologic stratum will be exhibit in this pages.