Un «import otrăvitor»: traducerea în Italia fascistă

Despite the fascist regime’s totalitarian ambitions, Italy remained a surprisingly open cultural space right up until the introduction of anti-Semitic legislation in 1938. In the 1930s Italy published more translations than any other country in the world; but, despite two campaigns against translations, the regime intervened with specific policies and restrictions only quite late, in the wake of the anti-Semitic purge of 1938-40. Research on translation can provide us with a very illuminating perspective on the nature of the Italian fascist regime and the extent to which it managed to achieve totalitarian control over Italian society