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Married. Anna Maria Mussolini. 30, the late Duce's fifth and youngest child, a $192-per-month pensioner who has been partially crippled from polio since childhood; and Giuseppe Negri, 24, nightclub M.C.; in Ravenna, Italy...
Waiting for Marco is like waiting for Lefty or Godot. In this first novel it represents a messianic yearning for an honest man who will redeem the corruption of Mussolini's Italy. Long before Marco makes his anticlimactic appearance, Italian Author Pasinetti explores half a dozen themes-love, death, courage, Venice, and, above all, the interplay of two families...
...Annunzio, by Anthony Rhodes. An entertaining biography of the fabulous Italian poet-soldier, whose antics intoxicated Italy with blood, glory and poppycock, and did much to prepare the nation for the grim Mussolini hangover...
...been D'Annunzio's rant and rave that prepared the way for Mussolini. But after he took power in 1922. the warrior poet lived out his life as the chief object of interest in a museum full of works of art. historic relics and junk. He died in 1938. not long before World War II brought Italy "the fountains of blood and tears" the poet had promised, and history made its final savage exegesis of his life-work-the butchered bodies of Mussolini and his mistress strung up by the heels...
...some time before the poet's death, mercifully perhaps, D'Annunzio had been slightly mad. Mussolini and the poet's neglected widow were the chief mourners...