Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

x, 286 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The origins of a personality cult. Political cults in liberal Italy, 1861-1922 / Christopher Duggan -- The propagation of the cult of the Duce, 1925-26 / Christopher Duggan -- Margherita Sarfatti and the invention of the Duce / Simona Storchi -- Sanity from a lunatic asylum : Ida Dalser's threat to Mussolini's image / Daniela Baratieri -- Mass culture and the cult of personality / Stephen Gundle -- Part II. The Duce and the Fascist regime. A town for the cult of the Duce : Predappio as a site of pilgrimage / Sofia Serenelli -- Mussolini's appearances in the regions / Stephen Gundle -- The internalisation of the cult of the Duce : the evidence of diaries and letters / Christopher Duggan -- Mussolini and the Italian Empire, 1935-41 / Giuseppe Finaldi -- Part III. The iconography of the Duce. Portraits of the Duce / Giuliana Pieri -- Photographing Mussolini / Alessandra Antola -- Mussolini as monument : the equestrian statue of the Duce at the Littoriale Stadium in Bologna / Simona Storchi -- Mussolini and the city of Rome / Eugene Pooley -- Part IV. After the fall of Fascism. The destiny of the art and artefacts / Giuliana Pieri -- The aftermath of the Mussolini cult : history, nostalgia and popular culture / Stephen Gundle -- Mussolini and post-war Italian television / Vanessa Roghi -- Afterword / R.J.B. Bosworth.

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945.

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Influence.

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Public opinion.

Dictators -- Italy -- Biography.

Heads of state -- Italy -- Biography.

Fascism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.

Italy -- History -- 1914-1945.

Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945.

Gundle, Stephen, 1956-

Duggan, Christopher.

Pieri, Giuliana.

9780719088964 (hbk.)