Emilio Gentile
Emilio Gentile is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rome La Sapienza
and Principal Lecturer in History at the Rome Campus. He is a distinguished historian of fascism, best
known for his interpretation of fascism as a “political religion.”
He is the author of several books, including
The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy (Harvard University Press),
The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism (Praeger),
The Origins of Fascist Ideology, 1918-1925 (Enigma),
and
Storia del partito fascista, 1919-1922: movimento e milizia (Laterza).
