All Outputs (2)

Postcards from the past: fascist site-seeing in post-war Italy (2023)
Journal Article
Pucci, L. (2023). Postcards from the past: fascist site-seeing in post-war Italy. Annali d’italianistica, 41,

This article examines picture postcards of Fascist-era sites that were mailed after the fall of the regime. Sent between the 1940s and the 1980s, the postcards carry images of both highly recognisable and less well-known examples of Fascism’s symboli... Read More about Postcards from the past: fascist site-seeing in post-war Italy.

Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party (2020)
Journal Article
Pucci, L. (2020). Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party. Tate Papers, 2020(33),

The Italian Communist artist Renato Guttuso found in Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica a language with which to confront the violence of his time, from fascism and the Nazi occupation to the era of Christian Democracy and the Cold War. This article ex... Read More about Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party.