De fascibus Imperioque restitutis - 1938
De
Fascibus Imperioque Restitutis (“On the return of the Fasces and the
Empire”) is a Latin prose text which Ficari wrote in 1937 for the third edition
of the Concorso nazionale di prosa latina (“National competition of Latin prose”). The results of the competition were
announced on 9 May 1937, the first anniversary of the foundation of the empire
in Oriental Africa. In this contest, the first and second prize were not
awarded, but Ficari’s prose text received a special mention (Taccone 1938:
255). In this Latin prose text, Ficari celebrates the results achieved by Fascism
after the March on Rome. The author starts by praising the role of Fascism in
putting an end to the post-war economic and social crisis (par. I), and then goes
on to exalt Mussolini’s providential role in saving and reviving the fatherland,
and his (idealized) political conduct (par. II-V). The last sections focus on Italy’s
restored military power and patriotism (par. VI), on the main achievements of the
regime (par. VII), and finally on the revival of the Roman empire and of Rome’s
universal domination (par. VIII). De Fascibus Imperioque Restitutis was
both published as a self-standing booklet (Ficari 1937) and included in a
collection of prose texts Ficari wrote for the Concorso nazionale di prosa latina
(Ficari 1938a: 29-37)
Bibliography
Latin
texts (selection)
Ficari, Quirino. 1937. De fascibus imperioque resititutis.
Pisauri: Ex Typis G. Federici.
———. 1938d. Orationes in certamina primum alterum tertium ab
Instituto Collegioque Romanis rebus procurandis indicta missae. Pisauri: Ex
Typis G. Federici.
Secondary
sources
Sacrè, Dirk. 2019. ‘De certamine solutae orationis Latinae Italico
(1934-1949) et de aliis quibusdam certaminibus.’ Melissa 209: 7–14.
Taccone, Angelo. 1938. ‘Il III concorso nazionale di prosa latina’. Il mondo classico 8
(4–6): 255–56.
Nicolò Bettegazzi