TO SIGN OR NOT TO SIGN: TULLIO LEVI-CIVITA, GIUSEPPE LEVI AND THE FASCIST LOYALTY OATH OF 1931.

This paper considers the historical framework for the events leading up to the 1931 oath of allegiance to the Fascist government, which all of Italy's university professors were required to sign, and how Turin's professor of anatomy Giuseppe Levi and the Roman mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita responded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]