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Under drastic orders from Il Duce not to "go native" in Ethiopia are Italian soldiers. Last week the war brides and wives they left behind received "Ten Commandments," signed not by the Dictator, but by "Benedetta," announced to be the pen name of the wife of a prominent Fascist. Commanded Benedetta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benedetta's Commands | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

Aged 38 and the vivacious mother of four, Benedetta confided to friends that she was moved to pen her ten commandments by emotion at the arrival on the Ethiopian front last week of her 59-year-old vivacious husband, "The Founder of Futurism," Millionaire-Poet Filippo Tomaso Marinetti (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benedetta's Commands | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

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