Italy in the 1920s was a Catholic country in general economic distress ruled by a Fascist government. While elements of its political and religious faces were documented by Hoppé, the photographer also captured the "cities time has passed by", noting in articles the fact that the "fever of reconstruction" sweeping Europe had not reached the many towns of the Italian countryside. He also catalogued many of the details of Italy's rich architectural and artistic history, including the faces and habitations of the people themselves that added to his work on human typologies. Hoppé's modernist sensibility was entirely at home with the dynamic facades of Mussolini's brave new Fascist architecture as it was with the stadiums of old Rome and the piazzas of Venice.

Rome, 1924	Venice, 1934	Venice, 1934	Venice, 1924
Rome, 1924	Narni, 1934	Rome, 1924	Rome, 1924
Rome, 1924	Romgua, 1934	Trevi Fountain, 1924	Pompeii, 1934
Abruzzo, 1934	Fiore, 1934	Abruzzo, 1934	Umbria, 1934
Sicily, 1924	Sicily, 1924	Children, 1934	San Merino, 1934