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Author Ceci, Lucia

Title The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy
Published Boston : BRILL, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (351 pages)
Contents The Vatican and Mussolini's Italy; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Religion, War, Nation; 1.1 'La Mala Educación'; 1.2 Political Anticlericalism, Pornographic Anticlericalism; 1.3 The 'Guerrone'; 1.4 A Gory Ideal of the Fatherland; 2: Transitions; 2.1 The Right Time; 2.2 The Caltagirone Antipope; 2.3 An Anti-modern Pope?; 2.4 Lending Credence to the New Power; 2.5 Discreet Agreements; 2.6 The Superior Interests of the Church; 2.7 The 'True' Nationalism and the 'Non-opposition'; 3: The Holiest of Nations; 3.1 The Italian Way to Holiness; 3.2 A Bumpy Road
3.3 A Look beyond Italy3.4 Conciliation and Competition; 3.5 Two Exclusive Faiths; 4: The Most Roman of Empires; 4.1 A War Machine; 4.2 Mother Rome; 4.3 Pure, Strong, Modern: A Catholic Virility; 4.4 A War for Empire-Building; 4.5 Against 'Hybrid' Unions; 4.6 A Crusade Just Like the Old Ones; 5: Public Cheers, Confidential Showdown; 5.1 'Hit the Pope and You Die'; 5.2 A Solitary Reconsideration; 5.3 The Speech that Enraged Mussolini; 5.4 Inexpiable Sin?; 5.5 Adverse, But Not Too Much; 6: Punishment and Purification; 6.1 Time Out; 6.2 At Mussolini's Side to Prevent the War
6.3 Ongoing 'Non-belligerence'6.4 Oscillations; 6.5 The Early Signs of a Changing Policy; 7: Atonement; 7.1 Divine Providence Doesn't Go to Salò; 7.2 'A Poor Christian'; 7.3 Nothing to Apologize about; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
SUBJECT Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 fast
Subject Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Italy
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Fascism and the Catholic Church -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Church and state -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
War -- Religious aspects
Church and state
Diplomatic relations
Fascism and the Catholic Church
International relations
Politics and government
War -- Causes
SUBJECT Italy -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069013
Subject Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004328792
9004328793