Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford University and Professor in the Department of French and Italian Literature and the Department of Comparative Literature.

"This fascinating book uses the little-known Italian engineer Gaetano Ciocca as a prism through which to refract and reflect upon the interactions of culture and politics in Fascist Italy and in early twentieth-century Europe. This work represents what one might argue is the next step in studies of Italian culture in this period." -Barbara Spackman,University of California, Berkeley

Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford University and Professor in the Department of French and Italian Literature and the Department of Comparative Literature.

"This fascinating book uses the little-known Italian engineer Gaetano Ciocca as a prism through which to refract and reflect upon the interactions of culture and politics in Fascist Italy and in early twentieth-century Europe. This work represents what one might argue is the next step in studies of Italian culture in this period." -Barbara Spackman,University of California, Berkeley

Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford University and Professor in the Department of French and Italian Literature and the Department of Comparative Literature.

"This fascinating book uses the little-known Italian engineer Gaetano Ciocca as a prism through which to refract and reflect upon the interactions of culture and politics in Fascist Italy and in early twentieth-century Europe. This work represents what one might argue is the next step in studies of Italian culture in this period." -Barbara Spackman,University of California, Berkeley