Istituto di Assicurazione e Previdenza per i Postelegrafonici, “Villa Marina XXVIII Ottobre” (Estate MCMXXXII A. X., 2013), 21.
On the summer colonies as a pedagogical project, see Colonie per l’infanzia nel ventennio fascista: Un progetto di pedagogia di regime, ed. Roberta Mira and Simona Salustri (Longo 2019); and Francesca Franchilli, Colonie per l’infanzia tra le due guerre. Storia e tecnica. Ediz. illustrata Colonie per l’infanzia tra le due guerre. Storia e tecnica (Maggioli Editore, 2009).
After the end of World War II many official fascist documents disappeared for a number of different reasons. In certain cases, they were destroyed as the result of Allied bombardment. In other instances, they were kept hidden by the postwar Italian authorities to protect the identity of fascist functionaries and supporters, or to protect the documents themselves from destruction. Some of them are still hidden and one of our objectives is to explore local state archives to search for traces of the colony during the fascist era.
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Commissione Regionale per il Patrimonio Culturale, “Ex convitto Villa Marina. Relazione Storico Artistica Architettonica,” 2018, 2.
“Ex convitto Villa Marina,” 4–5.
Every year the Italian Ministry of Culture nominates a national capital of culture. The designated town or city receives funds from the ministry in order to showcase its cultural heritage and development, usually spawning cultural events, exhibitions, and so on.
Partito Nazionale Fascista, Lezioni tenute al corso per direttrici ed assistenti di colonie climatiche (Torino: Tipografia Barattini 1935).
Anna Arnese Grimaldi, I tredicimila ragazzi italo-libici dimenticati dalla storia (Savona: Marco Sabelli Editore, 2014), 52.
See Ruth Ben-Ghiath, “Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Standing in Italy?,” The New Yorker, October 5, 2017; Igiaba Scego, Roma negata: Percorsi postcoloniali nella città (Roma: Ediesse 2014); and Emilio Distretti and Alessandro Petti, “The Afterlife of Fascist Colonial Architecture: A Critical Manifesto,” Future Anterior 16, no. 2 (2019).
W. E. B. Du Bois, “Inter-Racial Implications of the Ethiopian Crisis. A Negro View,” Foreign Affairs, October 1935.
