Denise R. Costanzo

As a master’s student, I used this book through Interlibrary Loan in Penn State’s Rare Books Room, where I met Charlie Mann. It fueled my relationships with research, architectural history and the complexities of Rome, and drew me into my work’s core issues: Italy’s place in the architect’s imagination and the many systems that have constructed its authority. This stunning folio is a product of fascism, an example of how Rome’s aesthetic and intellectual fascination serves ideological ends.