The cult of the Duce

Introduction – Stephen Gundle, Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri
1. Political cults in liberal Italy, 1861–1922 – Christopher Duggan
2. The propagation of the cult of the Duce, 1925–26 – Christopher Duggan
3. Margherita Sarfatti and the invention of the Duce – Simona Storchi
4. Sanity from a lunatic asylum: Ida Dalser’s threat to Mussolini’s image – Daniela Baratieri
5. Mass culture and the cult of personality – Stephen Gundle
6. A town for the cult of the Duce: Predappio as a site of pilgrimage – Sofia Serenelli
7. Mussolini’s appearances in the regions – Stephen Gundle
8. The internalisation of the cult of the Duce: the evidence of diaries and letters – Christopher Duggan
9. Mussolini and the Italian Empire, 1935–41 – Giuseppe Finaldi
10. Portraits of the Duce – Giuliana Pieri
11. Photographing Mussolini – Alessandra Antola
12. Mussolini as monument: the equestrian statue of the Duce at the Littoriale stadium in Bologna – Simona Storchi
13. Mussolini and the city of Rome – Eugene Pooley
14. The destiny of the art and artefacts – Giuliana Pieri
15. The aftermath of the Mussolini cult: history, nostalgia and popular culture – Stephen Gundle
16. Mussolini and postwar Italian television – Vanessa Roghi
Afterword – R.J.B. Bosworth
Notes on contributors
Index