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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 Mussolini, and Vittorio Mussolini. Maltoni was a nominal Catholic schoolteacher who married the socialist Alessandro Mussolini against the wishes of her father.
He was married to Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher, who became the mother of Benito Mussolini, and exercised considerable influence over his son Benito's early political beliefs, even naming his son Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini after three leaders he admired: Benito Juárez, Amilcare Cipriani and Andrea Costa.
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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...
Apr 3, 2014 · His mother, Rosa (Maltoni), was a devout Catholic teacher who provided the family with some stability and income. The eldest of three children, Mussolini showed much intelligence as a youth but ...
Maltoni was a devoutly Catholic schoolteacher who married Alessandro Mussolini. After Benito, Rosa had two more children, Arnaldo and Edvige. She died of meningitis in 1905. Mussolini was reportedly very attached to his mother, and during the Fascist period, Rosa came to represent the ideal Italian woman.
Born on July 29, 1883, in Dovia di Predappio, Forlì, Italy, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was the eldest of three children. His father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith and an impassioned socialist who spent much of his time on politics and much of his money on his mistress. His mother, Rosa (Maltoni), was a devout Catholic schoolteacher who ...
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