Word: petaccis
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Italians believed this story, but later there were eyewitnesses when Mussolini reviewed troops bound for Russia. He had watched them from the steps of the pink marble villa he built for Claretta Petacci. Ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-trained, the troops stumbled when they tried to goose-step. "It doesn't much matter," said Mussolini. But not long after, periods of depression engulfed him. By last week he was surly, as likely to fly into tantrums as he was when Angelica Balabanoff found him sleeping under bridges in Switzerland; when Rachele Guidi shuddered as he spat at priests...
...Among other women in his life: Revolutionist Angelica Balabanoff; Barmaid Rachele Guidi, his common-law wife (later legal) for ten years; the brilliant exiled Jewess, Margherita Sarfatti; the sisters Maria and Francesca Ferroni; and slim, brown-eyed Claretta Petacci, daughter of a former Vatican surgeon...