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Claretta : Mussolini's last lover /

"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 Mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bosworth, R. J. B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ghosts, diaries and a dictator's lover
  • Sex and the coming dictator
  • A dictator's distractions : his Muse and other bedfellows, 1922-36
  • And so ... pause ... to bed : Predatory Dictator meets Catholic Girl, 1932-7
  • Sex, love and jealousy : politics and the family, 1937-40
  • Warring in public and private life, 1941-3
  • The winter of a patriarch and his Ducessa
  • Death in the afternoon
  • Conclusion: A diarist's tale.