Italian History and Cinema until 1920

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  1. 3. Her death in Cabiria symbolizes the disappearance of the civilization of Carthage
  2. 5. the fire god in Cabiria
  3. 10. "Greater Greece"
  4. 11. Italy's spectacular defeat in 1917
  5. 13. The ____ decree by Pope Pius IX forbid Catholics from participating in Italy's politics.
  6. 15. literally, "dark chamber," this tool used by artists had a small hole through which an image is projected upside-down.
  7. 16. A genre of cinema that sets stories in Greek and Roman times.
  8. 17. A term referring to film stars (generally women) such as Francesca Bertini.
  9. 20. the first capital of the Italian film industry during the silent period; it was also the epicenter of the Italian automobile industry
  10. 21. The last name of the military commander who reportedly led 1000 red shirts to place Southern Italy under the Savoy monarchy's control.
  11. 25. Dante's most famous work
  12. 26. The first Italian production film company, founded in 1905-6 by Alberini and Santoni.
  13. 27. Literally "resurgence," this is the name for the unification period.
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  1. 1. The name of Fulvio Axilla's African servant whose stance was adopted by Mussolini in his propaganda
  2. 2. Last name of the author who wrote the Decameron, a collection of 100 stories told during a pandemic in the 1300s
  3. 4. The last name of the Italian inventor of cinema who also opened cinema halls throughout Italy.
  4. 6. The Treaty of ___ promised Italy Trieste, parts of South Tyrol and the Dalmation coast, and colonies in Africa, but ultimately was ignored by Woodrow Wilson.
  5. 7. Last name of the writer who supported entry into WWI and single-handedly conquered Fiume; he would become a source of inspiration for Mussolini.
  6. 8. The name of Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 film
  7. 9. the cinematic genre preferred by the Fascist regime
  8. 12. a genre of cinema that dramatizes the life of a real person, such as Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Medici family
  9. 14. After Napoleon's defeat, this was the only autonomous area of Italy. It led the effort to unify Italy.
  10. 18. These statutes formed the basis of newly formed Italy's constitution.
  11. 19. An individual who, like Marinetti, loved technology, war, and mechanization.
  12. 22. These French brothers invented the cinematographe in 1895
  13. 23. A literary movement that portrays social ills with objective distance.
  14. 24. art that aims to imitate reality as closely as possible