Italian fascism, also called classical fascism or simply fascism, is the original fascist ideology, which Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini developed in Italy. The ideology of Italian fascism is a
The fascist dictator Benito Mussolini titled himself Duce and ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Benito Mussolini and fascist Blackshirt youth in 1935
Italian ethnic regions claimed in the 1930s. Savoy and Corfu were later claimed. Nice, Ticino, and Dalmatia Malta Corsica
The session of the Grand Council of 9 May 1936, where the Italian Empire was proclaimed
Italian nationalism is a movement which believes that the Italians are a nation with a single homogeneous identity, and therefrom seeks to promote the cultural unity of Italy as a country. From an Ita
Painting depicting the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861
Niccolò Machiavelli, the founder of modern political science
Pasquale Paoli, the Corsican hero who made Italian the official language of his Corsican Republic in 1755
Giuseppe Mazzini. His thoughts influenced many politicians of a later period, among them Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Mahatma Gandhi, Golda Meir and Jawaharlal Nehru.