
Emilio Gentile
Author · 13 books
Emilio Gentile (born 1946 in Bojano) is an Italian historian specializing in the ideology and culture of fascism. Gentile is considered one of Italy's foremost cultural historians of fascist ideology. He studied under Renzo De Felice and wrote a book about him. Gentile is a professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. He considers fascism a form of political religion. He also applied the theory of political religion to the United States after the September 11 attacks.
Series
Books

La Grande Italia
The Rise and Fall of the Myth of the Nation in the Twentieth Century
1997

The Struggle for Modernity
Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism
2003

The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy
1993

I volti del potere - Mussolini e il fascismo
2019

Il fascismo in tre capitoli
2012

Quién es fascista
2019

25 luglio 1943
2018

Gli anni di Firenze - 1908. Firenze capitale delle avanguardie
2013

The Origins of Fascist Ideology 1918-1925
1996

Fashizm. Istorija i istolkovanie
2002

Ascesa e declino dell'Europa nel mondo
1898-1918
2018

Politics as Religion
2001

Novecento italiano - 1900. Inizia il secolo
2012