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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
Thus, on January 8, 1944, Edda Ciano Mussolini, after a harrowing journey, crossed the Swiss border carrying her husband’s wartime journals. On the 11th, the Count was shot in the back while sitting on a chair in front of a fortress wall in Verona.
Jul 1, 2000 · Ciano was a scion of the Fascist aristocracy, the son of a World War I naval hero who was made a count in 1925 and whom Mussolini later picked to succeed him in the event of his sudden death.
She said no. Later she offered it to Hitler and Mussolini in return for Ciano’s life—and was refused. By the time the Chicago News and three competitors put in their bids, Ciano was dead,...
Ciano was dismissed from his post by the new government of Italy put in place after his father-in-law was overthrown. Ciano, Edda and their three children fled to Germany on 28 August 1943 in fear of being arrested by the new Italian government. The Germans turned him over to Mussolini's new government, the Italian Social Republic. He was then ...
Apr 10, 1995 · She is said never to have reconciled with her mother, Rachele, Mussolini's widow, who died 15 years ago. Her mother blamed Mrs. Ciano's husband for being responsible for the fall of Benito...
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Edda failed in an attempt to trade Ciano’s secret diary, filled with compromising and embarrassing information about Mussolini, Hitler and several members of their Fascist and Nazi regimes, for her husband’s life. After his execution, she hid the manuscript for several months. It was translated and published in English for the first time in 1946.
