{"id":2147,"date":"2013-10-17T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T02:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2013-10-17T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T02:54:38","slug":"bread-and-wine-and-italys-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/10\/17\/bread-and-wine-and-italys-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread and Wine and Italy&#8217;s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignazio Silone&#8217;s novel <em>Bread and Wine,\u00a0<\/em>is an honest work about the totalitarian regime&#8217;s in Italy. It follows the character of Pietro Spina, a communist party leader who has returned from hiding to revolutionize the peasant population. In the pages, Silone writes a fascinating story about several different populations in both North and South Italy and how the are reacting to the Fascist regime and living their lives.<\/p>\n<p>A major theme of the Fascist movement is the rebirth of Italy&#8217;s greatness. Mussolini desired to bring Italy back to it&#8217;s glory days of the Roman empire. The Fascist Manifesto by Mussolini himself states that expansion and war are the most fundamental and important ways to progress. Silone does a great job of portraying this in <em>Bread and Wine.\u00a0<\/em>On page 195 in Zabaglione&#8217;s speech, he addressed the people: &#8220;descendants of eternal Rome&#8230;..who carried civilization to the Mediterranean and to Africa.&#8221; Here, it is understood the fascism glorifies the past as a means to the future. The people are perhaps mobilized with the promise of greatness. There also seems to be strong themes of nationalism, especially in regards to their imperialist claims.<\/p>\n<p>Why did the Fascists want to return back to the greatness of ancient Rome, instead of forging their own path to greatness?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignazio Silone&#8217;s novel Bread and Wine,\u00a0is an honest work about the totalitarian regime&#8217;s in Italy. It follows the character of Pietro Spina, a communist party leader who has returned from hiding to revolutionize the peasant population. In the pages, Silone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/10\/17\/bread-and-wine-and-italys-past\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51180],"tags":[85594,22806,80454,60094,71091,85597,67965,15,85631],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-bread-and-wine","tag-communism","tag-fascism","tag-italy","tag-peasants","tag-pietro-spina","tag-revolution","tag-rome","tag-silone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}