Avant-garde Florence Book

	Introduction	1
1	Sources of Avant-Gardism in Nineteenth-Century Florence	15
	The Myth of Tuscany and the Problem of the Post-Risorgimento	18
	Intellectual Life, the University, and Foreigners	27
	Modernizing Florence	37
	The Impact of Socialism and Aestheticism	41
2	The Leonardo Years	52
	Fin-de-Siecle Florence and the Myth of Paris	52
	The Birth of Leonardo and the Search for Secular Religion	64
	The Rhetoric of Cultural Renewal	79
	Spiritual Crisis and the End of Leonardo	94
3	La Voce: The Making of a Florentine Avant-Garde	102
	New Departures, New Divisions	102
	Cultural Politics in Florence, 1909-1911	111
	A Widening Circle of Participants	127
	War in Libya and Simmering Discontent	143
4	Culture Wars and War for Culture: The Years of Florentine Futurism	153
	The Politics of Autobiography	156
	Lacerba and Futurism, 1913-1915	166
	The Words of a Modern Man	181
	The Intervention Campaign	191
5	The Fate of the Florentine Avant-Garde: The War Years and the Postwar Crisis	204
	The Experience of War	205
	The War at Home and the Politicization of the Avant-Garde	217
	The Emerging Culture of Florentine Fascism	227
	Modernism and the Postwar "Recall to Order"	234
	Conclusion	251
	The Cultural Politics of Florentine Modernism	251
	The Rhetoric of Mussolini	257
	The Florentine Avant-Garde between Two Worlds	262
	Notes	269
	Bibliography	313
	Index	331