1. R. J. B. Bosworth, Mussolini’s Italy. Life under the Dictatorship, 1915–1945 (London: Allen Lane, 2005), pp. 274–5.
2. George Talbot, ‘Unpublished Letters from Henry Furst to Benedetto Croce’, Italian Studies, 60 (2004), 112–31.
3. Günther Berghaus, Futurism and Politics: between Anarchist Rebellion and Fascist Reaction, 1909–1944 (Providence R.I.-Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996), pp. 220–1.
4. ACS, PNF (Mostra), b. 69, f. ‘Congresso del PNF del 1925’, document titled Istituto nazionale fascista di cultura, dated 1 June 1925, cited in Philip V. Cannistraro, La fabbrica del consenso. Mass media e fascismo, translated by Giovanni Ferrara (Rome-Bari: Laterza, 1975), p. 22.
5. This was also true of Fascist movements in other countries. See Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (London: Allen Lane, 2004), pp. 55–86.