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Britain Can Be Invaded!
A striking Fascist-era propaganda map designed by Visceglia and issued by the Istituto Geografico Visceglia, illustrating fifty historical landings or invasions of Great Britain—from Caesar's Roman expeditions in 55 BCE to the German naval attacks of the First World War. The map traces these events around the British Isles with a bold red route line, pairing topographic detail with militarized iconography, including stylized warships and mounted warriors. Red annotations in Italian offer brief historical summaries that emphasize British vulnerability and continental martial success.
Published during the Second World War under the auspices of the Ente Toponomastico Italiano, this map exemplifies the Visceglia Institute’s capacity to blend geographical precision with nationalist messaging. Its educational format served propagandistic functions by framing Britain as a land perennially subject to foreign incursion—a particularly charged theme during Mussolini’s military campaigns.
Cartografia Visceglia
Founded in 1929 by Professor Vincenzo Visceglia (1903–1971), the Istituto Geografico Visceglia quickly became a central player in Italian urban planning, geography education, and cartographic publishing. A trained physicist and mathematician with a passion for the visual and representational aspects of geography, Visceglia brought scientific rigor and artistic sensibility to his work. His institute was known for high-quality thematic cartography, wall maps for schools, the Atlante Urbanistico d’Italia, and reproductions of antique maps and globes. The map offered here falls within Visceglia’s "geo-art" production—a term he coined to describe work at the intersection of scientific cartography and aesthetic presentation.
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