Much of the Italian centre left, but no party leaders, made a pilgrimage Saturday to Ventotene, the island south of Rome ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The article explores the genealogy of Edenic narratives about the Pontine Marshes in Agro Pontino, Italy, and the imaginary of the ...

and Mussolini’s own resettlement of northern Italians on the lands reclaimed from the Pontine Marshes, on the northern fringe of the South, which were also seen as a way to build national unity. As ...

[4] The Pontine Marshes surrounding Rome were notorious in this respect. (Early Greeks thought it was contracted by drinking swamp water; the Greek term is elonosia “disease of the marsh”.) ...

The latter returns to Rome to do what a long line of kings, emperors, popes, dukes, nobles could not do—drain the great Pontine marshes near Rome. The new Italian Ambassador to Washington ...