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Mussolini’s Gutting of Rome in Search of its “Romanness”

Published: March 30, 2021, 4 p.m.

Mussolini represented a revolutionary change in Italian government, and he sought to transform the look of Rome as well. He did this partly by the structures added but also by what he stripped away. We consider today two of his main “eviscerations” of Rome, which added roads and made ancient monuments more visible but also displaced thousands of Romans.