From WikipediaI forgot to ask about this.
Maybe there is some sort of noise operating here? Surely you do not mean that.
In parallel with the reclamation, fascism carried out the expropriation of large land owners, and owners of thousands of acres of land largely left uncultivated and unproductive, these areas were sown with wheat or left alone to pasture resulting in revenues. The operations of expropriation brought good results in central Italy in Apulia, and less successfully towards Sicily, where the operations of the enormous extent of expropriation of large estates (500,000 hectares), occurred too close to the war to be successfully brought to completion.[12]
You see? Sometimes aristocrats need to be beaten up, every now and then. Metaphorically of course.