Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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!"
Aside from Mussolini and Petacci, sixteen of the most prominent of them would be summarily shot in Dongo the following day and a further ten would be killed over two successive nights. [26] Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress, was captured and executed with him. Fighting was still going on in the area around Dongo.
Subsequently, Piazzale Loreto was the scene of one of the best-known events in the modern history of Italy, namely the public display of Benito Mussolini's corpse on 29 April 1945. The day before, Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and some other high-ranking Fascists had been captured and shot by partisans in Giulino, near Lake Como.
Benito Mussolini's father, Alessandro Mussolini, was a blacksmith and a socialist, [2] while his mother, Rosa (née Maltoni), was a devout Catholic schoolteacher. [3] Given his father's political leanings, Mussolini was named Benito after liberal Mexican president Benito Juárez , while his middle names, Andrea and Amilcare, were for Italian ...
After losing her husband in 1924, she wrote a biography of Mussolini. This was first published in 1925 in Britain under the title The Life of Benito Mussolini; it was published the following year in Italy with the title Dux. Because of the fame of Mussolini and the author's familiarity with the dictator, the book was a success.
On 27 April 1945 the high command of the CVL entrusted him with the execution of Benito Mussolini, who had been arrested on that day by Communist partisans near Dongo. He carried out the execution of Mussolini, his mistress, and a number of high-ranking Fascists the following day in Giulino di Mezzegra , along with fellow partisan officers Aldo ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Miriam di San Servolo (born Maria Petacci; 31 May 1923 – 24 May 1991) was an Italian actress, born in Rome, Italy.. Her elder sister, Clara Petacci, Benito Mussolini's mistress, was executed along with their brother Marcello on 28 April 1945.