Mussolini: storia d'un cadavere [Mussolini: history of a cadaver]. New York: La Strada Publishing Co., 1942.
Title
Mussolini: storia d'un cadavere [Mussolini: history of a cadaver]. New York: La Strada Publishing Co., 1942.
Description
Vacirca’s anti-fascist biography of Mussolini covers the period from his growing up in poverty to his rise to “Il Duce” in 1925 and emperor in 1936.
The bright pictorial cover (artist unknown) is illustrated with a graphic drawing of a red-eyed skull; the blood trailing from the skull’s base spells “Mussolini” for the cover title.
There is a good discussion of the significance of the image of the "cadavere" of Mussolini in this work and more generally of Mussolini's body - even, as here, before his actual death - in historian Sergio Luzzatto's work, translated as The Body of Il Duce (New York: Owl, 2005).
See discussion of the publisher, La Strada Publishing Co., in the description of La Strada magazine, q.v., started by Vacirca.
The bright pictorial cover (artist unknown) is illustrated with a graphic drawing of a red-eyed skull; the blood trailing from the skull’s base spells “Mussolini” for the cover title.
There is a good discussion of the significance of the image of the "cadavere" of Mussolini in this work and more generally of Mussolini's body - even, as here, before his actual death - in historian Sergio Luzzatto's work, translated as The Body of Il Duce (New York: Owl, 2005).
See discussion of the publisher, La Strada Publishing Co., in the description of La Strada magazine, q.v., started by Vacirca.
Creator
Vincenzo Vacirca
Publisher
La Strada Publishing Co.
Date
1942
Format
19.5 x 13cm; 301 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Vincenzo Vacirca, “Mussolini: storia d'un cadavere [Mussolini: history of a cadaver]. New York: La Strada Publishing Co., 1942.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 18, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/360.
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