Word: mussolini
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...view from the villa was superb. But Countess Edda Ciano, nee Mussolini, was not interested. "What I want most of all is that my case be settled one way or the other," she said. "There is nothing more unbearable than this waiting...
Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lake Como, surprised the Milanese by visiting the grave of Mussolini, whom he had often delighted to abuse...
Home to Jail. In a very different mood was another prominent D.P., haggard Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mussolini, widow of the Jate Count Galeazzo Ciano. From her Swiss refuge (a nerve hospital), she had watched the collapse of Fascism. Now she had to go home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate...
During a Roman heat wave, Italy's Socialists sweated out fusion in the imposing Aula Magna of the Collegio Romano. There hundreds of Socialists gathered for their first Congress since Mussolini suppressed their party...
...make a great musician of Pietro Mascagni, and he cooperated. In 1926, he was appointed Arturo Toscanini's successor as director of Milan's La Scala. He obliged by composing a Hymn of Labor. The obedient Fascist press hailed his 1935 opera Nero, a musical tribute to Mussolini's Italy, but it flopped anyway...