Mussolini & Piazza Augusto Imperatore

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Inscription to Mussolini

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On September 23rd 63 BCE, Augustus Rome's first and longest-reigning emperor was born. 
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Piazza Augusto Imperatore, with the Mausoleum of Augustus at its centre, was created by Mussolini to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the emperor Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE). On September 23rd 63 BCE, Augustus, Rome's first emperor was born. 
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The Latin inscription on the wall of what was once the office of social security and is now a hotel reads: HVNC LOCVM VBI AVGVSTI MANES VOLITANT PER AVRAS / POSTQVAM IMPERATORIS MAVSOLEUM EX SAECVLORVM TENEBRIS / EST EXTRACTVM ARAEQVE PACIS DISIECTA MEMBRA REFECTA / MUSSOLINI DVX VETERIBVS ANGVSTIIS DELETIS SPLENDIDIORIBVS / VIIS AEDIFICIIS AEDIBVS AD HVMANITATIS MORES APTIS / ORNANDUM CENSVIT ANNO MDCCCCXL A  F. R. XVIII
(This is the place where the soul of Augustus flies through the breezes, after the mausoleum of the emperor was extracted from the darkness of the ages and the scattered pieces of the altar of peace were restored, Mussolini the leader ordered the old narrow places to be destroyed and the location to be adorned with streets, buildings, and shrines fitting for the ways of humanity in the year 1940, in the eighteenth year of the Fascist Era).

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