The Missing Piece. Luigi Moretti’s Shrine to the Martyrs of the Fascist Revolution at the Foro Mussolini, Rome

The September–October 1943 double-issue of the bulletin of the National Fascist Union of Italian architects presented an account of the shrine dedicated to the martyrs of the fascist revolution, Luigi Moretti’s last work at the Foro Mussolini, Rome. Soon destroyed, in the decades after the war its short existence is forgotten or even questioned. Despite several attempts, only a decade ago Vittorio Vidotto has identified the actual collocation of the shrine into some rooms on the ground floor of the North guesthouse building. An analysis of either unpublished or almost unknown reports and descriptions of the construction stages, performed in the light of digital drawing, allows to reconstruct both the historical events and the architectural form of what can be considered as the missing piece of Moretti’s outstanding artistic trajectory in the Foro Mussolini.