Beatrice Falcucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 812661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatrice Falcucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Falcucci |
| SIGNATURE | FALCUCCI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1533-2097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond
Review of Sandra H. Dudley, Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond: Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters, London: Routledge, 2021, reviewed by Beatrice Falcucci
The Safari and the Screen
Recent historiography on empire and postcolonialism has highlighted the diverse visual practices and technologies that shaped colonial narratives and knowledge. This article examines how various visual media were used to advance Italy's imperial agenda, drawing on both recent scholarship and original research. Introducing the concept of transmediality and its methodological importance for analyzing colonial cultural and visual practices, the arti…
Lidio Cipriani, Attilio Gatti, and the shooting of Siliva Zulu (1927)
El fascismo a cien años de la Marcha sobre Roma
Rereading Travellers to the East
Rereading Travellers to the East aim to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in the political, economic, cultural and intellectual life of post-unification Italy. The authors highlight how this literature has been reinterpreted and…
European museology and colonial concord
This article assesses Italy's participation in the Expo du Sahara in Paris in 1934, placing it within the framework of European colonial culture, exhibitions, and international relations during the 1930s. Hitherto, the Expo du Sahara has been largely ignored by historiography, but it offers important insights into Italo-French relations in the years immediately preceding Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, as well as the ways in which Fascist Italy sou…
Fossili viventi
This article offers a first survey investigating the practice of displaying objects belonging to ancient civilisations of the Italian peninsula alongside those of the peoples living in the African colonies – and beyond – during the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. I will analyse the development of the discipline known in Italy as paletnologia in close connection with the European context and how it was presented in museums thr…
Il Museo Coloniale di Roma tra propaganda imperiale, oblio e riallestimento
Sources for Colonial Historiography
L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è sottolineare l’importanza di musei e collezioni coloniali presenti sul territorio italiano come vettori di memoria e nuove fonti per la storia coloniale del paese. Pur non vantando un grande museo coloniale nazionale come quelli europei di Leiden, Bruxelles o Parigi, l’Italia ospita sul suo territorio circa sessanta collezioni dalle ex colonie, divise tra musei militari, musei di antropologia e scienze naturali, col…
‘The issue of the Mediterranean and the colonies has now moved to the forefront of cultural life’
The Fascist model of exhibiting power and placing it in museum settings had its origins in the Liberal exhibitions of the late nineteenth century, and in the first exhibitions devoted to the Risorgimento. However, the regime's museum initiatives were numerous, innovative and varied, and many of them have not yet been adequately investigated; those launched in Italy's colonies, in particular, remain largely unexplored. This article highlights the …
Creating the empire
The Istituto Agricolo Coloniale Italiano was established in Florence in 1904 by Professor Gino Bartolommei Gioli, whose aim was to create a study centre that would support Italian colonial policy, contribute to the training of experts on tropical agriculture, and inspire admiration and love for Italy’s colonies. The nation's overseas empire was, in the opinion of many intellectuals, greatly neglected both by the Italian population at large and by…
Sources for Colonial Historiography
L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è sottolineare l’importanza di musei e collezioni coloniali presenti sul territorio italiano come vettori di memoria e nuove fonti per la storia coloniale del paese. Pur non vantando un grande museo coloniale nazionale come quelli europei di Leiden, Bruxelles o Parigi, l’Italia ospita sul suo territorio circa sessanta collezioni dalle ex colonie, divise tra musei militari, musei di antropologia e scienze naturali, col…
‘The issue of the Mediterranean and the colonies has now moved to the forefront of cultural life’
The Fascist model of exhibiting power and placing it in museum settings had its origins in the Liberal exhibitions of the late nineteenth century, and in the first exhibitions devoted to the Risorgimento. However, the regime's museum initiatives were numerous, innovative and varied, and many of them have not yet been adequately investigated; those launched in Italy's colonies, in particular, remain largely unexplored. This article highlights the …
Creating the empire
The Istituto Agricolo Coloniale Italiano was established in Florence in 1904 by Professor Gino Bartolommei Gioli, whose aim was to create a study centre that would support Italian colonial policy, contribute to the training of experts on tropical agriculture, and inspire admiration and love for Italy’s colonies. The nation's overseas empire was, in the opinion of many intellectuals, greatly neglected both by the Italian population at large and by…
Il Museo Coloniale di Roma tra propaganda imperiale, oblio e riallestimento
Rereading Travellers to the East
Rereading Travellers to the East aim to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in the political, economic, cultural and intellectual life of post-unification Italy. The authors highlight how this literature has been reinterpreted and…
European museology and colonial concord
This article assesses Italy's participation in the Expo du Sahara in Paris in 1934, placing it within the framework of European colonial culture, exhibitions, and international relations during the 1930s. Hitherto, the Expo du Sahara has been largely ignored by historiography, but it offers important insights into Italo-French relations in the years immediately preceding Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, as well as the ways in which Fascist Italy sou…
Fossili viventi
This article offers a first survey investigating the practice of displaying objects belonging to ancient civilisations of the Italian peninsula alongside those of the peoples living in the African colonies – and beyond – during the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. I will analyse the development of the discipline known in Italy as paletnologia in close connection with the European context and how it was presented in museums thr…
Lidio Cipriani, Attilio Gatti, and the shooting of Siliva Zulu (1927)
El fascismo a cien años de la Marcha sobre Roma
The Safari and the Screen
Recent historiography on empire and postcolonialism has highlighted the diverse visual practices and technologies that shaped colonial narratives and knowledge. This article examines how various visual media were used to advance Italy's imperial agenda, drawing on both recent scholarship and original research. Introducing the concept of transmediality and its methodological importance for analyzing colonial cultural and visual practices, the arti…
Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond
Review of Sandra H. Dudley, Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond: Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters, London: Routledge, 2021, reviewed by Beatrice Falcucci
Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Historiography (3 works) · Law (3 works)