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...Rachele Guidi Mussolini once served as a lusty taproom wench at the rustic inn of good Papa Allesandro Mussolini, sire of Benito. Wise Papa Allesandro warned the wench against his son. "Do not let yourself think of that young man," he is said to have said, "It would be better to throw yourself under a train. Married to him you will have neither happiness nor peace...
Precisely when and how Rachele Guidi and Benito Mussolini were married is still a topic for active speculation. A delayed civil marriage appears to have been followed by a still further delayed religious ceremony. But the union was fruitful from the first. Daughter Edda Mussolini is now 17, son Vittorio, 11, son Bruno 10, and Babe Romano Mussolini is aged six months...
...teens. One of her poems, "The Runaway Slave," is the rarest work in the exhibition, and a collection of her sonnets, privately printed in 1847, with a facsimile of a manuscript of one of the sonnets, is probably the most valuable. Two presentation copies of her works, one, "Casa Guidi Windows," and the other, "The Seraphim and Other Poems," with her own corrections on two pages, complete the set of Mrs. Browning's works on exhibition...
...most interesting of the earlier Italian Renaissance painters taken from the point of view of his life if not of his art is Tommaso Guidi, nicknamed Masaccio; the son of Sir Giovanni de Simone Guidi, a notary of Florence...
...Behind, far behind, panted a lumbering caravan of limousines. Before they had scaled the nearly perpendicular republic, Signor Mussolini had leaped from his racer, received the respectful welcome of the two Capitani Reggenii (Regents) of San Marino. As the swaying limousines drew up, there clambered out, Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood in attitudes of somewhat disgruntled welcome, the 60 Grand Councillors of San Marino, an august senate from which the two regents are chosen twice a year. Well they might regard II Duce with suspicion, fear. Did not Caesar Borgia...