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Apr 28, 2015 · Mussolini stormed out of the palace and fled Milan with his 33-year-old mistress, Clara Petacci, in the 1939 Alfa Romeo sports car he had bought as a gift for his girlfriend. The following day,...
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...
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 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...
Mar 22, 2017 · Over the last decade a magnificent new source has become available to historians in the form of a diary composed by Mussolini’s last lover, Claretta Petacci, twenty-nine years his junior and executed with him in April 1945.
Apr 28, 2015 · Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, attempted to escape to the north. They were foiled when a partisan known only as Eduardo found Mussolini in the town of Dongo and sent men to arrest...
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.
