La Libia fascista di Federico Ravagli

Abstract

The article examines the Libyan production of Federico Ravagli, a professor from Emilia Romagna who during the Fascist period moved to Libya where taught at the Italian high school in Tripoli. At the same time, he carried out an outstanding chronicle and documentary activity.
Ravagli uses writing as a means of recounting his experience in the colony, which he will put later at the service of the propaganda of the Mussolini regime. In the three texts analyzed, Libya does not have the exotics features which characterized the first tales of travel, but it becomes the extension of Italy. The representation of “quarta sponda” that the author offers to us is the place where the virtues of the fascist superman are affirmed and where the cultural military value of Italian man in best displayed.