Claudia Lazzaro is Professor in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University. She is the author of The Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy. Roger J. Crum is Associate Professor of Art History and Graul Chair in Arts and Languages at the University of Dayton. He is coeditor with John T. Paoletti of the forthcoming Florence: The Dynamics of Space in the Renaissance City.

"This highly stimulating, coherent, and original volume of essays illuminates superbly the many and complex ways in which the Fascist regime appropriated different aspects of the past, from ancient Rome to the Risorgimento, in its attempts to manufacture and promote an integrated and intrinsically modern national identity for Italy."—Christopher Duggan, author of Fascism and the Mafia and A Concise History of Italy

Claudia Lazzaro is Professor in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University. She is the author of The Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy. Roger J. Crum is Associate Professor of Art History and Graul Chair in Arts and Languages at the University of Dayton. He is coeditor with John T. Paoletti of the forthcoming Florence: The Dynamics of Space in the Renaissance City.

"This highly stimulating, coherent, and original volume of essays illuminates superbly the many and complex ways in which the Fascist regime appropriated different aspects of the past, from ancient Rome to the Risorgimento, in its attempts to manufacture and promote an integrated and intrinsically modern national identity for Italy."—Christopher Duggan, author of Fascism and the Mafia and A Concise History of Italy

Claudia Lazzaro is Professor in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University. She is the author of The Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy. Roger J. Crum is Associate Professor of Art History and Graul Chair in Arts and Languages at the University of Dayton. He is coeditor with John T. Paoletti of the forthcoming Florence: The Dynamics of Space in the Renaissance City.

"This highly stimulating, coherent, and original volume of essays illuminates superbly the many and complex ways in which the Fascist regime appropriated different aspects of the past, from ancient Rome to the Risorgimento, in its attempts to manufacture and promote an integrated and intrinsically modern national identity for Italy."—Christopher Duggan, author of Fascism and the Mafia and A Concise History of Italy