Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Annalisa Capristo
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/308
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 273-296 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC308-oa3
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This paper explores the rejection of Cardinal Giovanni Mercati’s candidacy for the Accademia d’Italia (Royal Academy of Italy) in April 1937. In examining the case, it draws on a collection of unpublished documents from various Italian and Vatican archives, as well as diary entries and articles from the press of the time and the postwar period. The story sheds light also on another historiographically significant theme, namely Mussolini and fascism’s gradual shaping of an anti-Jewish policy. The regime’s policy reached a pivotal moment in 1937, although it took another year for it to be fully and publicly unveiled. This complex story, set in a country already gripped by racism and anti-Semitism, is fraught with political implications, both domestical and international.
Keywords: ; Giovanni Mercati, Royal Academy of Italy, Italian fascism
Annalisa Capristo, La mancata nomina del cardinale Giovanni Mercati all’Accademia d’Italia nel 1937 in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 308/2025, pp 273-296, DOI: 10.3280/IC308-oa3