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Rosa Maltoni (married Mussolini; 22 April 1858 – 19 February 1905) was the mother of Italian Fascist founder and leader Benito Mussolini. Personal life [ edit ] Rosa Maltoni was the mother of Benito, Arnaldo and Edvige Mussolini , the mother-in-law of Rachele Mussolini and the paternal grandmother of Bruno Mussolini , Edda Mussolini , Romano ...
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The first point to be made about Mussolini as a person is that he was not mad but rather displayed throughout his life many of the assumptions and much of the behavior of ambitious Italians of his era. Unlike Hitler, Mussolini was a "family man." In 1910 he had begun living with Rachele Guidi, seven years his junior and the daughter of his father's...
In his halcyon days Mussolini had himself aspired to be a man of ideas. The forty-four volumes of his "complete works" include a novel, a history of the Reformation preacher Jan Hus, and an autobiography, penned when he was not yet thirty years old (but exclude plays about Napoleon and Julius Caesar on which he collaborated once installed as dictat...
During the campaign for Italian intervention in 1914–1915, Mussolini won some prominence because of the dramatic nature of his break with mainstream socialism and the aggression and activism of the first issues of Il Popolo d'Italia. In September 1915, however, he was in his turn conscripted. Although he retained a political profile, wrote a war di...
Primary Sources
Ciano, Galeazzo. Diario 1937–1943.Milan, 1980. Mussolini, Benito. Opera omnia. Edited by Edoardo and Duilio Susmel. 36 vols. Florence, 1951–1962; Appendici I–VIII(vols. 37–44), Florence, 1978–1980.
Secondary Sources
Bosworth, Richard J. B. The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism. London and New York, 1998. ——. Mussolini. London and New York, 2002. ——. Mussolini's Italy: Life under the Fascist Dictatorship. 1915–1945. London and New York, 2005. Cannistraro, Philip, and Brian R. Sullivan. Il Duce's Other Woman. New York, 1993. Clark, Martin. Mussolini. Harlow, U.K., 2005. De Felice, Renzo. Mussolini.7 vols. Turin, Italy, 1965–1997. De Grazia, Victo...
A biography of the Italian fascist dictator and his mother, Rosa Maltoni, a primary schoolteacher and pious Catholic. Learn about Mussolini's rise and fall, his alliance with Hitler, his execution by partisans, and his posthumous burial.
Rosa Maltoni. Rosa Maltoni. Rosa Maltoni in Mussolini ( San Martino in Strada, 22 aprile 1858 – Predappio, 19 febbraio 1905) è stata un' insegnante italiana, nota per essere stata la madre di Benito Mussolini (1883-1945). La tomba di Alessandro e Rosa Mussolini a Predappio ( FC)
Apr 3, 2014 · Learn about the life and career of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who founded the Fascist Party and allied with Hitler during World War II. His mother, Rosa Maltoni, was a devout Catholic teacher who influenced his early years.
Rosa Maltoni was the mother of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. She died of meningitis in 1905 and was buried in Predappio, Italy.
On 25 January 1882, Mussolini married Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher and Roman Catholic. Unlike his wife, Mussolini did not believe in God and hated the Roman Catholic Church. Maltoni's father looked down upon her decision to marry Mussolini and did not approve of the marriage. In 1883, Maltoni gave birth to their first son, Benito Mussolini.
Maltoni was a nominal Catholic schoolteacher who married the Communist Alessandro Mussolini against the wishes of her father. After Benito, Rosa had three more children, Arnaldo, Laura, and Edvige. She died of meningitis in 1905 when her son, Benito Mussolini, was only 22. Mussolini was reportedly very attached to his mother, and during the ...
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