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History of Busto Arsizio
History of the municipality of Busto Arsizio, Italy
The history of Busto Arsizio, according to the hypotheses advanced by some historians[1] and later re-proposed by local history scholars,[2][3][4][5][6] would have seen its beginnings with the Ligurians.[7] The later presence of the Romans, mentioned by many authors,[8] is shown by the town's urban distribution.[9]
Known in the early Middle Ages for the tanning of hides, the first mention of the city dates from 1053, when the name Bvsti is mentioned on a plaque located in the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan.[10]
By decree of Cardinal Charles Borromeo, on April 4, 1583,[11] Busto Arsizio, then under the rule of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, was detached from the Vicariate of Seprio and placed at the head of what until then had been the Parish of Olgiate Olona. From that time it thus had its own podestà.
The origins of the activity that made the town a major textile center date back to the Middle Ages: in 1375 "one can hear a loom in almost every house," as testified a few centuries later by historian Pietro Antonio Crespi Castoldi in his history of Busto Arsizio (De Oppido Bust
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Mussolini, Architect: Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy 9781442630994
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Travelling to See the Buildings
1 The Myth of the Duce as Inaugurator
2 Building and Fighting
3 Buildings Built to “Endure”
4 In the City Where Fascism Was Born
5 Architects in the Dictator’s Entourage
2 Mussolini’s Rome
1 The Third Rome
2 Demolishing “with No Holds Barred”
3 The Keen Eye
4 Visits to Building Sites in Rome
5 Architecture and the Legacy of Fascism
6 Rome, “Kingdom of the Unexpected”
7 Rome and Berlin: Parallel Action
8 The North-South Imperial Axis
3 At Palazzo Venezia
1 The Success of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution
2 Restoring Augustus
3 Doubts about Terragni
4 The Rejection of Brasini’s Grandiose Architecture
5 Mussolini’s Oversights
6 Architecture for a Politics of Domination
7 Ponti’s Suggestions
8 “Rendering unto Caesar What Is Caesar’s”
9 Moretti Instead of Piacentini?
4 In the Architect’s Shoes
1 The Duce Approves
2 The Man with the Diktats
3 With Pencil in Hand
4 Advising the Architects
5 Zigzagging Forward
6 “I’m an Expert on Architecture”
5 Piacentini and Mussolini
1 The Architect of the Littorian Order
2 A Special Rapport
3 Committed to the P Walk Through Rome’s Futuristic City: EUR