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The Mussolini family is a well-known family in Italy. The most prominent member was Benito Mussolini, the fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Other ...
Petacci had a long-standing relationship with Mussolini while he was married to Rachele Mussolini. Petacci was 28 years younger than Mussolini. [5] They met for the first time in April 1932 when Mussolini, driving with an aide to Ostia, overtook a car occupied by the twenty-year-old Petacci and family members. She called out, "Duce! Duce!"
Anna Maria Mussolini is the last-born child of Benito Mussolini and Rachele Guidi, [2] born on September 3, 1929, at Villa Carpena in Forlì.Her early years were marked by tragedy when she was afflicted with severe polio at the age of seven, causing permanent disabilities and deeply affecting her father. [3]
Edda Ciano, Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari (née Mussolini; 1 September 1910 – 9 April 1995) was the daughter of Benito Mussolini, fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Her husband, the fascist propagandist and Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano , was executed in January 1944 for his role in Mussolini's ouster.
By Mussolini's reckoning, the Italian population had to reach 60 million to enable Italy to fight a major war—hence his relentless demands for Italian women to have more children. [71] Mussolini and the fascists managed to be simultaneously revolutionary and traditionalist; [73] [74] because this was vastly different from anything else in the ...
Dorothy Thompson was born in Lancaster, New York, in 1893, one of three children of Peter and Margaret (Grierson) Thompson. Her siblings were Peter Willard Thompson and Margaret Thompson (later Mrs. Howard Wilson). Her mother died in April 1901 when Thompson was seven, leaving Peter, a Methodist minister, to raise his children alone.
Mussolini feuded with the Catholic Church over a number of issues in his time in office, but their views, at that time, coincided on the issue of gender roles and contraception: both felt that women should assume a role as wife and mother, and both disagreed with contraception and abortion, with Mussolini banning the former. The Battle for ...
The two started a relationship, and when Mussolini was refused work on the basis of his fervent socialist political activity, she financed him with the revenues of her beautician job. According to some sources, they married in 1914, [2] and in 1915 she had a son, Benito Albino Mussolini. Though Fascist agents sought to erase all traces of the ...