Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surfeited by whole years of public adulation, Signer Mussolini bethought himself suddenly last week of perhaps the most unnoticed and retiring woman in all Italy...
Roaring like a fire demon, the car devoured 250 miles almost without slackening. From Rome it fled across Umbria and Tuscany into the hills of Forli. A quirk of the thumb and Mussolini cut the ignition. An easy swing of the wheel and he coasted silently up the drive of a country villa at Carpena. Dazed, the Premier's chauffeur looked about him, rubbed caked dust from smarting eyes...
...Bruno, Vittorio and Donna Rachele Mussolini enjoyed in Sabine rusticity the presence of Babbo Benito. Then, restless, he sped off with Donna Mussolini to Florence, visited their daughter Edda at the Institute di Poggio Imperiale, where she is a student. After luncheon Donna Rachele boarded a train for Carpena...
...months after her husband's triumphant march upon Rome at the head of his "Black Shirts" (1922), Donna Mussolini made no public appearance whatsoever. Then, on Jan. 7, 1923, she was created "Godmother of Fascismo" at a simple ceremony in Verona...
...mention of her is made in the "authorized" Life of Benito Mussolini, though several of his early mistresses are dwelt upon. The young Mussolini-hodcarrier, schoolmaster, editor-yet burned with an ardor which singed many a maid and dame ere ever he set the world on fire...