Emilio Gentile, E subito fu regime. Il fascismo e la Marcia su Roma

Abstract

The "March on Rome" historiography has been marked by deeply conflicting interpretations, reflecting this major historical event's complexity and antagonistic nature. In the book Le origini del fascismo in Italia. Lezioni di Harvard, the historian Gaetano Salvemini had shown in the 1940s that the event was little more than an “opera buffa,” an absurd display without a revolutionary substance. This perspective portrays the March as a mere theatrical staging, a calculated spectacle orchestrated to create the illusion of a grassroots uprising