Il Duce and His Women
Title | Il Duce and His Women PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Olla |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781846881350 |
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Il Duce and His Women
Title | Il Duce and His Women PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Olla |
Publisher | Alma Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-05-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781846881831 |
Il Duce and His Women charts the main events in Mussolini’s private and public life, from his humble beginnings in Romagna as the son of a blacksmith to his years as the director of a leading Socialist newspaper and his irresistible rise to power, with a particular focus on his renowned appetite for women, and the lesser-known influence they had on his decision-making. The result is a riveting account that will shock and haunt its readers for a long time.
Il Duce's Other Woman
Title | Il Duce's Other Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Philip V. Cannistraro |
Publisher | William Morrow |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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The never-before-told story of Benito Mussolini's Jewish mistress and how she helped him come to power. The beginning of the turbulent love affair in 1911 of Margherita Sarfetti and Mussolini marked her emergence as an important writer and cultural advisor for the Fascist party, and her passion and determination wrought great changes for Italy. 24 photos.
The Body of Il Duce
Title | The Body of Il Duce PDF eBook |
Author | Sergio Luzzatto |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 146688360X |
A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a Milan square, as reviled in death as he was adored in life. With Italy's defeat in World War II, the cult of Benito Mussolini's physical self was brought to its grotesque denouement by a frenzied, jeering crowd of thousands-one eerily similar to the cheering throngs that had once roared their approval beneath Il Duce's balcony. In this groundbreaking work, Sergio Luzzatto traces the fortunes of the Fascist dictator's body: from his charisma, virility, and magnetic domination of Fascist parades, to his humiliating execution, the ugly display of his remains, and beyond. Buried, exhumed, stolen, and hidden for ten years, Il Duce's corpse was finally laid to rest, a shrine for fanatical followers. Through this pursuit, Luzzatto shows how in a totalitarian state the body of the ruler comes to incarnate the nation. And from the indignities visited on Mussolini's corpse, Luzzatto crafts a subtle social and intellectual history of a country struggling to become a republic and free itself from the thrall of Fascism. Elegantly written and stunningly conceived, alive with never-before-published letters, diaries, and reports, The Body of Il Duce cuts a new and compelling path through twentieth-century history.
How Fascism Ruled Women
Title | How Fascism Ruled Women PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria de Grazia |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520074572 |
"For the common reader as well as the professional one, Victoria de Grazia opens doors and sheds new light on a fascinating subject."—Mary Gordon, author of The Other Side
Claretta
Title | Claretta PDF eBook |
Author | R. J. B. Bosworth |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2017-02-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300226268 |
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, and Claretta (or Clara) Petacci, his much-younger lover. Shot dead by Italian partisans after attempting to flee the country in 1945, the couple’s bodies were then hanged upside down in Milan’s main square in ignominious public display. This provocative book is the first to mine Clara’s extensive diaries, family correspondence, and other sources to discover how the last in Mussolini’s long line of lovers became his intimate and how she came to her violent fate at his side. R. J. B. Bosworth explores the social climbing of Claretta’s family, her naïve and self-interested commitment to fascism, her diary’s graphically detailed accounts of sexual life with Mussolini, and much more. Brimful of new and arresting information, the book sheds intimate light not only on an ordinary-extraordinary woman living at the heart of Italy’s totalitarian fascist state but also on Mussolini himself.
The Pope and Mussolini
Title | The Pope and Mussolini PDF eBook |
Author | David I. Kertzer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 587 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0198716168 |
The compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Book Award-finalist David Kertzer, it will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.