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over the following few years his regime rebuilt Mascali with
much noise and trumpeting as a monument to the eiciency and
zeal of his government. Etna's presence is only lightly suggested
in the painting; instead Guttuso expounds the brutal effect of
the eruption on the local people, many of whom are left naked
and terrified, their horses and cows bolting, their domestic
furniture and order scattered. The volcano is here used by Gut-
tuso - a member from 1940 of the Italian Communist Party -
as a metaphor for the volcanic effect on Italian society of the
Fascist ascendancy.
Umberto Boccioni,
Under the Pergola
in Naples
, 1914,
oil on canvas.
