As a historian who has studied and taught courses on Italian fascism, I have spent many hours watching footage and listening ...

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Image: Italian actor Luca Marinelli depicts Benito Mussolini in the new series. Pic: Sky When asked if concepts of fascism are still misunderstood today, Wright replied: "I can only talk ...

As a historian who has studied and taught courses on Italian fascism ... certain figures close to Mussolini who play a central role in the series are used almost as symbols and as ways of ...

“We had to show all the violence in fascism – but also Mussolini’s great power of seduction on people,” says Antonio Scurati, from whose bestselling, fact-based 2018 book the series is ...