La crisi sociale da Cristo a Mussolini [The Social Crisis from Christ to Mussolini]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1933.
Title
La crisi sociale da Cristo a Mussolini [The Social Crisis from Christ to Mussolini]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1933.
Description
In this 24-page pamphlet, Lisanti praises fascism, though noting its differences from Christianity. Lisanti declares that fascism has substituted for Christ’s exhortation to “Love your neighbor as you love yourself,” the “political imperative of deductive reason: ‘Act so as to cooperate for the common good,’” promoting the political relation between capital and work for creating a social equilibrium, just as Christianity proclaimed the moral relation between riches and poverty in order to create social equilibrium.
Lisanti seems an unlikely candidate to have become a Black Shirt or Khaki Shirt (i.e., a militant fascist) rather than the philosophical fascist as seen in a work like this one, much as Renzo Novatore was more a philosophical anarchist rather than a man of action (much less violent action). Lisanti believed fascism is “the affirmation of historical determinism,” to navigate safely between the Scylla of Socialism and the Charybdis of Communism, in Lisanti’s view.
In 1916, Lisanti authored a standard Italian-English dictionary published by the Società Libraria Italiana, q.v. I find no biographical information in Flamma, Durante or other sources about Lisanti. (There is a Lisanti chapel in the Bronx added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, but it was built in 1905 by Francesco Lisanti.)
Lisanti seems an unlikely candidate to have become a Black Shirt or Khaki Shirt (i.e., a militant fascist) rather than the philosophical fascist as seen in a work like this one, much as Renzo Novatore was more a philosophical anarchist rather than a man of action (much less violent action). Lisanti believed fascism is “the affirmation of historical determinism,” to navigate safely between the Scylla of Socialism and the Charybdis of Communism, in Lisanti’s view.
In 1916, Lisanti authored a standard Italian-English dictionary published by the Società Libraria Italiana, q.v. I find no biographical information in Flamma, Durante or other sources about Lisanti. (There is a Lisanti chapel in the Bronx added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, but it was built in 1905 by Francesco Lisanti.)
Creator
Dott. Gaetano F. Lisanti
Publisher
Cocce Brothers
Date
1933
Format
23.5 x 15.5c; 24 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Dott. Gaetano F. Lisanti, “La crisi sociale da Cristo a Mussolini [The Social Crisis from Christ to Mussolini]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1933.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 18, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/204.
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