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IL DUCE'S PORTRaits.

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| January 06, 2003 | Calvino, Italo | COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

You could say that I spent the first twenty years of my life with Mussolini's face always in view, in the sense that his portrait hung in every classroom as well as in every public building or office I entered. I could, therefore, try to chart a history of the evolution of Mussolini's image through his official portraits as they have remained in my memory.

I began my first year of primary school in 1929, and I remember very clearly the Mussolini portraits of that period: he was still dressed in civilian clothes, with a stiff upturned collar, as was common among important people in those days. (This look was to become old-fashioned in the years immediately ...

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