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She became forever associated with the Italian dictator. It’s time to take a look at the fascinating life of Mussolini’s mistress and how she went from a swooning teenager to one of the most important figures in the life of Italy’s most famous strongman.
Nov 26, 2023 · The deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, had been executed on Saturday near Como, Italy. The bodies had then been brought by truck to the Piazzale...
Apr 2, 2022 · After Benito Mussolini was executed alongside his mistress Clara Petacci on April 28, 1945, their bodies were mutilated by the partisans who killed them. First, they threw vegetables at his corpse. Then they started beating and kicking it.
Nov 23, 2014 · It was Clara Petacci who has gone down in history as Mussolini’s most famous lover. In April 1945, Italian partisans shot her and Il Duce and hung their bodies upside down in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto.
Nov 24, 2009 · On April 28, 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. The 61-year...
MUSSOLINI and Claretta Petacci, his mistress, were captured by the Italian Partisans on Friday, April 27, 1945, at Dongo, Province of Como. They were shot the next day on a deserted country...
In what follows I will examine how the tension, in biographers’ representa-tions of Petacci, between “sacred vessel” and the “sum of her component parts” (eyes, legs, breasts) opens up a space for female agency in Fascist-period imagination, and how that tension persists for us in the present.
