The last section , preceded by a lateral appendix on stratospheric experiments , is dedicated to the military activity of the Air Force between 1940 , the year in which , on June 10 , the Duce announced Italy ’ s entry into the war alongside Nazi Germany , and 1941 , the year of the inauguration of the Aeronautical College . “ Vincere ” and “ Vinceremo ” are the mottos of Mussolini that open and close the section , followed by words praising military action and by depictions of airplanes hurtling through the skies , dropping bombs and engaging in acrobatics . This hymn to supremacy is accompanied by a statistical caption noting the tonnage of the bombs dropped on Greece , the bullets fired , the number of enemy planes shot down .
The final section , then , is a true hymn to war and victory from which the relationship between propaganda and reality emerges with great clarity . The mosaic closes , at the end of the fourth wall of the portico , with a dedication of the Aeronautical College to Bruno Mussolini , flanked by the fascist motto “ Credere Obbedire Combattere ”.
mosaics of flight of Angelo Canevari have been relaunched on the national and international level , both for their aesthetic value and for the historical content they exhibit . They are valuable material for students of the history of art and of the propaganda and ideology of Fascism , they can be objects of interest for a critical cultural tourism , and they can constitute a valuable starting point for civic education . As such they are a perfect examples of that “ dissonant heritage ” that is increasingly an important element in public heritage and historical memory .
Art , history and reflection
After Forlì was liberated from the Nazis and the Fascists on 9 November 1944 , the building , although damaged by the war , was used by Allied troops to house soldiers stationed in the immediate vicinity of the front line . Since the end of the war , the building has been used as a school for children aged from 10 to 13 and for a time , during the closure for the summer holidays , as the Forlì Trade Fair , before its move to the outskirts of the city . The mosaics are still present , in good condition , tolerated despite the dissonance of their political and historical message : the Fascist interpretation of the challenges of flight , the sympathy for the young Icarus , who in the educational programs of the Republic inspired by the democratic Constitution appeared once more as a symbol of imprudence than of heroism , and above all the panegyric to war . Rediscovered thanks to the activities of the ATRIUM cultural route and initiatives of the Fondo Ambiente Italiano , the
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