Autore
Rattalino, Elisabetta

Titolo
Il mito di Druso Maggiore nella «Bolzano italiana»: espansione urbana e monumenti irrealizzati negli anni ’30 / 'The Myth of Drusus the Elder in "Italian Bolzano": Urban Expansion and Unrealised Monuments in the 1930s' = 'The Myth of Drusus the Elder in "Italian Bolzano": Urban Expansion and Unrealised Monuments in the 1930s'
Periodico
Il capitale culturale
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: N. 32 - Pagina iniziale: 607 - Pagina finale: 634

After the passage of South Tyrol to Italy in 1919 and with the establishment of the fascist regime in 1922, in less than twenty years, Bolzano became one of the cities in Italy with the most significant number of symbols of fascist power. Not only were the symbols of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy erased and replaced with those of italianità, but new inscriptions, reliefs and monuments were created to reiterate the regime's values and narratives in the city's public spaces. In this context, the infrastructures and the monuments – the latter never erected – dedicated to the Roman commander Nero Claudius Drusus (38 BC – 9 AD) are of significant interest. Retracing the chronology of these interventions through archival documents and analyzing the projects and circumstances in which the erection of the monuments failed, this essay questions how the regime had foreseen and succeeded in weaving the myth of Drusus and the ideology of romanità in the new Italian city of Bolzano. These operations, inevitably grafted onto the local nationalist sentiment of Nineteenth-century origin, demonstrate how the public spaces of Bolzano were spaces of socio-political negotiation, and the absence of monuments dedicated to the Roman general is a clear symptom of the prevalence of international politics over local nationalist demands.  



SICI: 2039-2362 (2025)N. 32<607:IMDDMN>2.0.ZU;2-D

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