Word: claudia
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...newspaper which Claudia and her amorous Cardinal helped to sell in 1909 was Il Popolo, edited by the fiery Socialist-patriot Cesare Battisti in the city of Trent, then Austrian, but ceded to Italy after the War. Editor Battisti, always short handed, was assisted by the General Secretary of the local Socialist trade unions, one Benito Mussolini, an Italian youth who had worked for a time as a hod carrier in Switzerland and then picked up enough French to earn his living by teaching it. Helper Mussolini wrote perhaps a quarter of each daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned...
Amusing is the tale of how Scribe Mussolini, unused to doing such long pieces, wearied of his novel and threatened to kill off Claudia with intent to bring the Romanzo to a close. "For Heaven's sake, don't!" Editor Battisti would cry. "The subscriptions are being renewed splendidly...
...loved Claudia. . . . Between the duties of the principate and the dignity of the purple on the one hand, and on the other, his love for Claudia ... he was lashed into one of those tragic passions which wreck men's lives. . . . He was growing old waiting for the papal dispensation which would permit his marriage with Claudia...
...Claudia Particella, whose father was the Cardinal's counsellor, had retired to Castle Toblino, guarded and defended by a group of ruffians in whom the Cardinal placed the utmost confidence. . . . "Beneath her silken robe was visible the provocative outline of her body. . . . Her half-closed eyes understood the sorcery of poisonous passion...
Filiberta Madruzzo, the Cardinal's niece, is "a beautiful and innocent girl" and "heiress to all the family wealth," yet he heartlessly imprisons her, "yielding perhaps to the threats or prayers of Claudia...